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...husband is in Kandahar providing intelligence support for the units on the front lines. He is glad to be in Afghanistan instead of Iraq. But at least part of the answer to the question "Why haven't we caught Osama bin Laden?" is that we took on Iraq before the job in Afghanistan was truly finished. The U.S.'s monetary and human resources are stretched too thin for either task to be completed anytime soon. For far too long, Afghanistan has been pushed out of the spotlight. I hope our mission there will regain the attention it needs...
...Today you can find a farmers' market a couple of times a week in every midsize city in the country. Things are sold when they're ripe, generally, and people are allowed to taste and judge for themselves. You learn which is the Red Haven peach and which the Faye Alberta, and you can become very sophisticated about peaches if you pay attention. But even if you don't, you're likely to experience great-tasting food because it is ripe, fresh and in season. The organic movement is said to be growing 300% a year in the U.S., which...
...rule of law around the world. After Kinney spent three months (pro bono, but with expenses paid) setting up Bulgaria's first public defender's office and a month in Mongolia on a similar mission, his vision for retirement was transformed. He and his wife sold their intended retirement haven, a house in Honduras. Now he hopes to move to Budapest after retirement and be a Senior Lawyers volunteer throughout Eastern Europe. Kinney had not looked forward to retiring, but now he says, "I'd love to retire if I could do this kind of work and not just...
...Connecticut-born, Florida-raised Libby attended the elite Phillips Andover Academy. His road to Washington began in New Haven, Conn., where, as a Yale undergraduate, he studied under a political science professor named Paul Wolfowitz. He graduated from Yale in 1972, and went on to get his law degree at Columbia. After Ronald Reagan?s election in 1980, Wolfowitz recruited Libby to work for him at the State Department. Then, during George H.W. Bush's presidency, Libby went to work for Wolfowitz again, this time at the Defense Department, where Dick Cheney was in charge...
Later on, the pool became more than just a haven from the heat—it became a haven from their father, Harold. “I would take [my sister] away from the house when it became ugly,” Fingleton recounts...