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...campaign of intimidation, the likes of which the country had not seen in a decade or more. In the course of a few weeks, state news reported that some 150,000 people had been detained at least briefly. All the women in my life went out and bought dark, knee-length, shapeless coats, the sort of uniform we had discarded in the late '90s. The crackdown had everyone on edge, in part because it was so inexplicable. Many women avoided going out in public unless it was necessary. Even the pious considered the new mood egregious. As a friend...
...British public isn't alone in wanting an end to British involvement there. Armed Forces chief Dannatt is lobbying for a withdrawal in public and private, says Dodge: "He's saying Afghanistan is most important and I won't have my army broken over the knee of Iraq." With an army of fewer than 100,000, the U.K. doesn't have the manpower to maintain a significant presence in Iraq and continue ramping up operations in Afghanistan. The government may not yet have figured out exactly how to extricate British troops from Iraq but that calculation is becoming ever more...
Until now. Thanks to the Health-Care Callousness Assessment Test (or HCCAT, for short)--a test I've devised as a supporter of universal coverage enacted in economically rational ways--the guesswork and knee jerk can be taken out of the equation. With three simple questions--the kind that can be dropped casually in conversation or on national TV during a debate--anyone can discern whether a Republican's approach to health care is truly pitiless or merely unsympathetic. A look at how the HCCAT scores Romney's Massachusetts plan and the health-care tax deduction just announced by Rudy...
...recipe for confusion: The U.N. will provide "command and control structures and backstopping," but day-to-day decisions will be taken separately by an African Union general. To be effective, peacekeeping forces need to be towering buffers too intimidating for the combatants to challenge; this one is barely knee-high...
...fight and don't get anything done," Proch told Altmire, slapping his jeans-clad knee with a rolled-up program. Proch said he's frustrated that Democrats are trying to dictate timelines to Bush, whom he trusts more to handle the war. When I asked Altmire about Proch's criticism in an interview, he grew visibly frustrated. "I don't know how to respond to that because we're doing the best we can to address the issue that he's concerned about," Altmire said. "And we're getting no help from the Republicans, and we're certainly getting...