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...forces happy to take advantage of American logistical and air support to vanquish their foes and stake their own claims for power. That alliance between the U.S. and its Afghan proxies has been, inevitably, one of convenience rather than of principle. The shared goal was breaking the Taliban's grip on power and putting to flight the al Qaeda volunteers who had helped keep it in place - while the Afghan warlords have expressed commitment to help America snare its quarry in order to stay on the right side of the superpower that facilitated their victory, such verbal commitment has meant...
...railroads. Reform is turning out to be tougher to implement than Blair expected. And he has other troubles: the euro he wants Britain to join remains seriously unpopular, and his government has acquired an entrenched reputation for autocracy and finessing problems rather than fixing them. "We need boldness, grip and follow through," Blair said recently. His countrymen are saying back: We still like you, Tony - but we need results...
...railroads. Reform is turning out to be tougher to implement than Blair expected. And he has other troubles: the euro he wants Britain to join remains seriously unpopular, and his government has acquired an entrenched reputation for autocracy and finessing problems rather than fixing them. "We need boldness, grip and follow through," Blair said recently. His countrymen are saying back: We still like you, Tony?but we need results...
...like many of these companies, hopes to use proteins themselves as drugs--and has six in clinical trials. CEO William Haseltine says HGS does hundreds of experiments on some 10,000 distinct proteins in its hunt for novel drugs. The firm has invested heavily in bioinformatics to get a grip on the mounds of data this process generates...
...been chosen as Afghanistan's interim Prime Minister by the U.N.-sponsored gathering of Afghan factions in Bonn, Germany. And that afternoon several high-ranking Taliban commanders were driving out to Shahwalikot to lay down conditions for their surrender of Kandahar, the last city in the Taliban's grip...