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...members.Kristof, whose research regarding the social injustice women face in East Asian countries is chronicled in his new book “Half the Sky.” He urged audience members to partake in “a cause larger than ourselves.”“Helping people is harder than it looks,” Kristof said. “At the same time, it’s important to acknowledge that many projects have been completely successful and transformative.”The symposium concluded on an uplifting note with a photo slide show...
...that," he says. "You have to have an air sense and all that aeronautical decision-making down pat." While he has never had to fire a missile in anger, he knows that is likely to change once he begins his new assignment. "I'm going to be there to help the men and women on the ground who are risking their lives," he says. "It lets them see who's around the corner...
...once it hits the floor of his chamber. He must also contend with the fact that it takes 60 votes on almost anything to overcome a filibuster. Reid must also grapple with the two bills passed by his committees - the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee - which approach the health-reform issue in significantly different ways. By comparison, the measures passed by three House committees are far more similar to each other...
...Nowhere will Reid be more closely scrutinized than in his handling of the public option, which is the controversial proposal to set up a government-run plan, similar to Medicare, as an alternative to private insurers for covering the uninsured. Will he include the plan, as the HELP Committee bill did, inviting a certain effort to strike it out of the bill by amendment on the floor? Or will he offer a bill similar to the Finance Committee's, which does not contain the public option, and see an effort to add it on the floor? "Reid's not tipping...
...nation-building. Counterinsurgency strategy requires clearing and holding territory, which cannot be done without transforming a corruption-riddled, anarchic and poverty-stricken state into a functioning market democracy. That goal is totally beyond American interests and capabilities and promises only endless war. Nor does the all-out approach help us in Pakistan, whose leaders continue to nurture long-standing alliances with the Taliban as a counterweight to India, Islamabad's real worry. Finally, the all-outers slight the U.S. voters who have run out of patience with the loss of American lives and treasure for a war whose aims they...