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...Yorker. And his message to the U.S. and his erstwhile Taliban comrades is that the conflict in Afghanistan will have to be settled through negotiation. "I believe that is the only solution," Zaeef tells TIME. "You are fighting an ideology. You kill one man, and his two brothers will join the Taliban...
...president of distribution, said of Green Zone. Actually, it's a bit of a disaster. It's a smidge of financial calamity. It's a flop of Universal proportions. With a grudging B-rating from CinemaScore's polling of moviegoers who'd seen the film, Green Zone could join Syriana, The Kingdom, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Rendition and the Oscar-triumphant The Hurt Locker in the box-office body count of Mideast war movies. Indeed, the film's opening-weekend tally was almost exactly the same (factoring in inflation) as Team America: World Police...
...Graf case is sure to make the lives of Navy recruiters more difficult. Shawn Smith is a retired Navy captain who - along with her husband, also a retired Navy captain - applauded their daughter's decision to join the Navy in 2007 after graduating from Notre Dame on a Navy ROTC scholarship. Erin Smith was "seriously considering" making the Navy a career, as her parents did, until she was assigned to the Cowpens. "Her experiences with Captain Graf definitely helped form her decision to do her time and leave the Navy," her mother says. "I was appalled that this happened, guilty...
...Women’s Events and Outreach Chair Lena Chen ’09-’10, an organizer of the exhibit, invited the fifty or more attendees admiring the photographs to join the people pictured on the wall in coming out as feminists. Polaroid camera in hand, she snapped pictures of the attendees and taped the snapshots to the wall...
...single market, a European currency, free movement of people. The E.U.'s defenders, moreover, would argue that in its immediate neighborhood, its success has had a "demonstration effect" that is not to be underestimated. Just as Greece, Portugal and Spain wanted to lock in their democratic rights by joining the E.U. in the 1980s, so when the Soviet yoke was lifted, the nations of Eastern and Central Europe wanted to join the E.U. as fast as they could. By extending an area of peace and liberal government to the east, the E.U. has done much to calm a part...