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...asked him whether he thought social work was now in style. "Indeed," he said, and so it is. In Iraq today, U.S. soldiers are building soccer fields and standing guard over girls' schools. This is being done in the name of an Administration whose members openly despised Clinton's habit of using the armed forces for missions short of war. ("We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten," said Condoleezza Rice, now National Security Adviser, to the New York Times in 2000.) As for Liberia, all the key phrases last week - the need for clearly...
...relatively small force of well-trained and organized troops can quickly put to flight much larger rag-tag rebel armies. But political institutions in Liberia are weak, and in a region where war has become a way of life for so many young men, it may have a nasty habit of recurring. And as he's pressing the case for more action against al-Qaeda and regional warlords and demagogues (primarily Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe), President Bush is likely to hear growing calls from African leaders for help in the Congo, currently Africa's bloodiest and most intractable conflict...
...Because Africa's wars have a habit of spilling over borders and destabilizing entire regions, peacekeeping will be a hot topic in Administration's discussions over Liberia with Nigeria and in particular South Africa, which boasts the continent's most powerful military. The President will also be looking to greatly expand intelligence cooperation against al-Qaeda with his hosts in Senegal, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa...
...found at the scene were Asian. (No one has yet been arrested; one suspect, who had a brown substance on his hands and scratches on his face, was detained nearby but released because of insufficient evidence.) Law-enforcement officials believe the Sierra Forest opium was meant for smoking, a habit most prevalent among Southeast Asians, who in recent years have flocked to Fresno--40 miles from the site--and to other central California communities. --By Margot Roosevelt
...Like a lot of Australians, visiting Noosa is a happy habit I formed as a teenage surfer?long before the town saw its first vegetarian caf? or yoga workshop. I would chase the waves north to the place where Pacific swells are transmuted into perfect point breaks along the many headlands and bays. Over the years, my occasional sojourns have become more frequent and are getting longer. To my mind, time spent in a beachfront apartment here should meet anybody?s definition of bliss...