Word: leadership
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Thank you for "How to Tame the Deficit" [Feb. 15]. We need leadership from the President to reduce government expenditures, not to spend and spend. We should start by not trying to be the world's policeman and not pandering to the electorate as Obama has. Citizens have to live within their budgets. The government must learn to do the same starting...
...Shabab's Long Reach If Somalia's extremists are becoming an international threat, that's partly because of their cosmopolitan leadership. One sure result of war is refugees, and decades of fighting in Somalia have seen the rapid growth of a large Somali diaspora in places from Cape Town to Minneapolis. But not all who have been forced to make new lives far away from Africa have done so easily. The past few years have seen the arrival in Somalia of 200 to 300 young ethnic Somali men from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway and Sweden, migrants' children returning...
...campaign platform of current UC President and Vice President Johnny F. Bowman ’11 and Eric N. Hysen ’11. It is all too easy for student representatives to let proposed initiatives slide once in office, and Bowman and Hysen’s leadership in this push for a library reflects their commitment to campaign promises...
Across the border, Pakistan's continuing support for American efforts is far from assured. Right now, Islamabad's immediate interests may coincide with Washington's, but they can just as quickly diverge, especially on the question of what to do about the Taliban's core leadership. The U.S. is adamant that it will not negotiate with Omar unless he parts ways with bin Laden. "There's a clear red line," says Richard Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. "They must renounce al-Qaeda." American officials are also determined to root out the Haqqani network, which they regard...
Experts say Jundallah may have served, for a time, as a tool of strategic depth for Islamabad, much in the same way it has allowed the anti-Indian terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban to exist in safe havens in Pakistan. "Rigi was a lever with which to have some leverage with Iran, a check Pakistan could cash in," says Bokhari...