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...capital, Kabul, from Taliban attacks and also on reinforcing British troops in Helmand and other parts of the south. That will do little to assuage the criticism that the limited U.S. and NATO deployments in Afghanistan have left Afghan President Hamid Karzai with little more real authority than the mayor of Kabul or alter the reality that the Taliban currently enjoy the momentum. (See pictures of Afghan police forces in training...
...shouldn't come as any surprise that, in the wake of the shocking allegations against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, observers almost immediately evoked the Windy City's rich, colorful history of corruption. But after a couple of days Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the son of the man synonomous with cronyism and backroom Chicago politics, wasn't about to let the comparisons go unchallenged. At a Wednesday press conference, a subdued Daley, who is bidding to land the 2016 Summer Olympics, went out of his way to distance himself and his city from the stain of the burgeoning scandal...
...feds, not the pundits - has suggested that Daley, who said Harris was "a very good employee" under his watch, would be swept up in the current probe. In fact, the mayor and the governor have had a well-known, long-standing political schism. But it does create some unease on the fifth floor of city hall, a suite that Harris got to know quite well before he was rejected for the position of Daley's chief of staff in 2005, prompting his jump from the city to the state payroll...
...Still, the mayor expressed embarrassment at how widespread the corruption had become and how close it had come to sullying his reputation for turning Chicago into a thriving cosmopolitan city by spurring economic development, reducing crime and trying to reform public housing and education. The probe was led by none other than Patrick Fitzgerald, the same prosecutor who announced the complaint against Blagojevich and Harris...
...former intelligence officer and judge advocate general oversaw one of the most bald political plays under the Mayor - the 2003 wrecking of Meigs Field, a lakefront VIP and recreational airport that Daley, in the dark of night, ordered bulldozed to make way for a huge park. And Harris helped shepherd the O'Hare International Airport expansion project, a controversial move to grow one of the world's busiest airports that put Daley at odds with suburban mayors and others...