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...Since then, candidates have used early Veep announcements as a tool to shape their images and grab the spotlight from the incumbent. These are tall orders in the era of public financing of presidential campaigns, because by summer, campaigns traditionally run out of money for the primaries and haven't yet received general election funds. The period before the conventions is when they need free media the most...
...commit to that relationship and devote the rest of your life to making it the most honest relationship you can. But confessing your affair is the kind of honesty that is unnecessarily destructive. There are two huge exceptions to not telling: if you're having an affair and you haven't practiced safe sex, even if it's only one time, you have to tell. Again, the moral principle is minimizing the hurt. But this time, the greatest risk of hurt comes from inflicting a sexually transmitted disease, and I've never seen a relationship recover from that. You also...
...while Alberto, a government target himself, admits the FARC has been rattled, he believes it won't collapse. In fact, the unraveling of the group's central authority could end up making local bosses like him stronger. "We can't deny that we have suffered desertions of combatants who haven't understood clearly the reason for our struggle or who have let themselves be influenced by state propaganda," he says. "We have to study the situation so this doesn't keep happening." But he insists that in his rebel bailiwick, retention is still high, despite the fact that any guerrilla...
...late May, Oxford launched the most ambitious fund-raising drive ever undertaken by a European university, aimed at boosting its coffers by at least $2.5 billion. The eager among you have chipped in already - helping Oxford to more than $1 billion so far - but there are many that haven't. Still need convincing? "The task before us is to guarantee Oxford's future pre-eminence," announced Vivien Duffield, chairman of the campaign, "in a world now changing so fast that we must lead or fall behind...
...that a new generation of jihadis is making the trek to Pakistan, seeking al-Qaeda's assistance. Sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies signed off on a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded that al-Qaeda has made a strong comeback in Afghanistan and Pakistan because it has found "a safe haven in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas [FATA] in Pakistan" for its operational lieutenants and top leadership. In February, Michael McConnell, director of National Intelligence, said in congressional testimony that there had been an "influx of new Western recruits into the tribal areas since...