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...every department enjoys the intellectual and social cohesion that seems to bubble from the Barker Center or Paine Hall. In the history and government departments, monthly faculty meetings, hiring seminars and occasional Christmas parties are the modus operandi for social cohesion. “It’s sad we get together so often to do administrative things, but not enough to enjoy our company intellectually,” says history department chair David Blackbourn. And sometimes disagreements among faculty concerning the basic principles that govern the discipline can hinder collaborative efforts...
...Tehran-based Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. But there are plenty of other Pashtun forces in the field, not represented at Koenigswinter. The Northern Alliance, of course, is far from monolithic, and although its prefers to be known as the "United Front" is not exactly united on just who should govern Afghanistan and how. There has been obvious battlefield competition between Tajik militias loyal to Rabbani and those of Uzbek warlord G eneral Rashid Dostum, while the Alliance's ethnic Hazaras even marched on Kabul to stake their own claim on power when the Tajik forces seized the city...
...their commanders want to go now. But whenever a war begins, these sorts of debates arise. Still, if the Northern Alliance, helped by the U.S., takes the city of Mazari al-Sharif this week, that will be plenty. They don't need to rush to Kabul when no alternative government is ready. Plainly there are schisms within the Taliban, and the U.S. is also trying to exploit those. If you're going to create a stable government, you have to put together a group that has the credibility to govern. And that may include elements that have been part...
Casey said the appointment of WRC Executive Director Scott Nova and the establishment of by-laws to govern the organization have changed the playing field since former University President Neil L. Rudenstine declined to join the consortium...
...rubble that is Kabul today is a stark reminder of the pitfalls of trying to govern a land unrivaled in its unruliness, and it may be a long time before Afghanis are willing to believe that a transitional government is anything more than a temporary, tactical option for forces that have been fighting one another for more than a decade...