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Zahir claims that Marjah is "70% under control," but he adds that at night, masked Taliban fighters appear at houses and threaten to behead people if they work with the government. The insurgents need the farmers to stick with the poppy. According to U.N. experts, last year the Taliban reaped nearly $300 million from the drug trade; Afghan officials put the figure far lower, from $80 million to $100 million. Even at the low estimate, says a Western counternarcotics agent, "that's still enough to fuel the insurgency for a year." Nearly all of the Taliban's drug profits came...
...survive? Health care in the 21st century is cruel territory, and sometimes, as Shep points out to Glynis' doctor, a positive attitude is the cruelest: "Nobody in this biz is ever sup posed to throw up their hands and call it quits, so long as there's any last teensy weensy, teeny-tiny smidgeon of a chance that some new therapy will eke out a few extra days...
...note in history." The 2008 global financial crisis would finally force a partial implementation of the second policy, but Foot's legacy cannot be measured in concrete achievements such as laws or processes. His was the very British triumph of the underdog, of the nice guy who came in last and in so doing retained his principles and values. In a country that lost faith in its political classes after being chivied into the Iraq war on the basis of false intelligence and then lost any residual respect for Westminster amid revelations that some MPs subsidized their lavish lifestyles with...
...obsession with college basketball has helped the tournament, more colloquially known as March Madness, grow into a 65-team sports celebration. Every year die-hard fans and clueless cubicle dwellers alike navigate the maze of March Madness seeding brackets trying to predict the winner in their office pools. Last March, President Obama's bracket received as much scrutiny as his economic policies. The tournament season has grown so mad, in fact, that a cottage industry has sprouted around the so-called science of forecasting which teams will make the cut, an enterprise now known as bracketology...
...Germans ... don't want to bail out the feckless Greeks with their flagrantly inaccurate official statistics; they resent being Europe's banker of last resort; they object to the universal demand that they plug the vast holes in the Greek budget deficit in the name of 'European unity'; and for the first time in a long time they are saying it out loud." --3/8/10...