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...with Harvard also said the newspaper’s passing would affect them little. Maria I. Paiva, a HUDS employee who lives in Somerville, said that while she sympathizes with the workers whose jobs are on the line, The Globe is not on her daily reading list. Workers at local newsstands and convenience stores said they would not expect a large impact on sales were The Globe to close. Radwan Kheireddine of C’est Bon Convenience said he expects any loss in business to be temporary. “In the beginning, we’ll hurt...
...lead to accidental leavening. According to rabbinic law, once the flour is combined with water, matzo dough must be kneaded, rolled and baked within 18 minutes - otherwise it will begin to rise. Judaism takes its bread rules very seriously; in 2001, Israel's Interior Ministry even conducted raids on local restaurants to make sure they weren't serving leavened bread during Passover. (Read about the President's White House Seder...
...world," Mullen said several times - that focus on protecting the public and building civil order. And so, in addition to the usual round of private meetings with government officials, Holbrooke convened a breathtaking parade of farmers, Afghan tribal leaders, women legislators, rule-of-law advocates, journalists, the local diplomatic corps, religious leaders; and then a similar roundelay in Pakistan. Mullen seemed amazed and somewhat nonplussed by Holbrooke, who is the David Petraeus of diplomats, a constant source of energy and creativity - and occasionally controversy, since he is not, shall we say, a country-doctor sort...
Atmar described a series of new efforts to curb police corruption - although he was much less forthcoming about the Karzai government's buckraking - and some of the programs, especially those that paired local police with NATO mentoring teams, seemed quite promising. Indeed, right now Afghanistan is bristling with new ideas, and the slightest sliver of hope. It is, of course, easy to be deluded by a handful of pro-Western Afghans who hazard a visit to the U.S. embassy, but there is a quality of pride and independence to these people - a consequence of their never having been successfully colonized...
Indeed, the meetings that Holbrooke and Mullen had with Pakistani civic leaders were far less hopeful than the meetings in Afghanistan. The local journalists seemed more intent on defending the Pakistani army and intelligence services ("Why are you always beating up on the ISI?") than on the threat that terrorists posed to their country. The war was an American war, an American problem - even though the terrorists had allegedly tried to blow up the entire Pakistani Cabinet in a bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Sept...