Word: localness
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...morning ceremony with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, Obama was serenaded with an eponymous song in his honor by the local reggae star, Blakk Rasta. "In a dis ya time a black American president a great sign," read the song's lyrics. "Too long dem disrespect blacks and Africans combined." After the speech, Obama, his wife and children took helicopters out to the Cape Coast Castle, which for centuries served as a major Portuguese depot for slaves bound to America and the Caribbean. "I think it was particularly important for Malia and Sasha, who are growing up in such...
That it most certainly is. In October it will have been eight years since U.S. forces first went into combat in Afghanistan against al-Qaeda and its local supporters in the Taliban. That makes the war there the second longest (after Vietnam) in U.S. history. More than 1,200 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan; some 730 of the dead were American, but other nations have suffered too. Britain has lost 175 soldiers in the conflict, and Canada 124. And the deaths in uniform are the easy ones to count: they do not encompass the thousands of Afghan villagers...
...precisely because so many Afghans have been killed that the war is, in effect, starting anew. McChrystal's task is to recalibrate the war effort so local people can see that the coalition's actions increase their security, in turn allowing them to get on with their lives. Up to now, the deaths of Afghans in the fighting have done little to aid the allies and a lot to turn locals against foreign forces and the government of President Hamid Karzai, which those forces sustain. This is a place - as British and Russian armies discovered and were sent packing after...
...still blocked on occasion by slow-moving patrols of security vehicles. Convoys of armored personnel carriers and trucks loaded with rifle-bearing members of the People's Armed Police have driven throughout the city over the past three days, usually accompanied by a sound truck broadcasting speeches from local party leaders. (See pictures of the unrest in Urumqi...
...descent. That includes five of the top 20 World Series of Poker players: Men (The Master) Nguyen, Scotty Nguyen, John Juanda, David Chiu and Johnny (Orient Express) Chan, who holds two WSOP main event titles. Still, without media exposure, these names remain unknown in Macau, leaving organizers to develop local heroes who can inspire the masses to take up the game...