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...GENERAL PETRAEUS' Super Bowl coin toss. Slated next for Oscar skit with WALL?...
...captured 70,000 cows last year - worth about $62 million in Bangladesh. "I'm sure that as many got across," says Ashish Mitra, a former director general of the BSF. "It's a losing battle. Cattle-smuggling is the biggest problem that we have." The absurdities of the ban on cattle exports are a constant source of frustration within the BSF. The cows that are seized are auctioned off at customs depots, and usually bought by the same smugglers, sometimes three or four times. Moving a cow from one end of India to the other is perfectly legal...
That is the war Obama has declared the U.S. must win, a task made more difficult by recent American neglect. The Bush Administration took its eyes off Islamabad after the fall of its favored partner, army general Pervez Musharraf, and the assassination of his would-be successor, Benazir Bhutto, with whom the U.S. hoped to work closely. Since Bhutto's death, a weak elected government and a recalcitrant military have failed to check the easy movement of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in and out of Afghanistan. That has forced the U.S. military to launch targeted missile strikes on Pakistani...
...costs and emissions. There has been a sensible push to add even more money for mass transit, which reduces energy use, increases the competitiveness of metropolitan areas and helps working families. Expanded unemployment benefits and food stamps will be excellent stimulus--and they're desperately needed right now. In general, most of the current proposals--though not all--aim to limit the new spending to the next two years...
Well, Congress can say. For example, Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman inserted language into the House version that limited energy grants to states that give their utilities incentives to promote energy efficiency. And Congress could make sure the money is spent productively by attaching a few general strings to the stimulus dollars. For instance, there should be "fix it first" provisions to prioritize repairs to highways, levees and other infrastructure over new construction, which would create more jobs while reducing future federal obligations. We do need to rescue states to prevent them from raising taxes and firing workers, but just...