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...Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified.” one hundred and thirty seven years later, much of society seems to agree. Entire industries and lives revolve around this belief. Every self-conscious teenager recoils at the idea yet spends an undue amount of time looking in the mirror. Aesthetics affect us whether we like it or not, for people expend great energy seeking their own ideal of how things should look. But how much do our own aesthetic ideals lead to an irrational satisfaction or disappointment in our academic lives...
...quagmire. That tension - time is an ally of your foes if they know when you're going to pull out - can't be papered over. The more explicitly Obama lays out timetables, benchmarks and deadlines, the less impact his reinforcements are likely to have on the ground. So look for him to insist that this isn't an open-ended commitment, while refraining from specifying just what that means. Many Democrats, and most of the public, will cheer his pledge to leave, while much of the GOP and military will embrace the ambiguity in which it is wrapped. (See pictures...
...forces to about 400,000 men. But the time and money needed to generate and maintain an army and police force whose combined size would be close to that of the 550,000-strong U.S. Army is a daunting task in impoverished and war-torn Afghanistan. So don't look for Obama to announce any big hike in the size of the Afghan army. Instead, he'll leave discussion on its size to Congress, where hearings on the war are slated in the coming days...
...troops and money to the conflict. But long-standing corruption and incompetence can't be quickly eradicated. "The Pakistani and Afghan governments are both next to useless when it comes to this issue," Democratic Representative Dave Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, tells TIME. So look for fairly elastic benchmarks, which will only please those who are required to meet them...
...lifeline out of the crisis, Sheik Mohammed will certainly look again to Abu Dhabi, whose vast oil deposits make it by far the richest U.A.E. entity. It stepped up with $10 billion in support immediately after the global crash in 2008 and can be expected to do so once more; Abu Dhabi's ruling al-Nahyan family, as cautious as the al-Maktoums are daring, knows that it, too, will be dragged back by the demise of Dubai. A glance at the $600 billion-plus balance sheet of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund puts Dubai's debt crisis...