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Another option for Marjah is to let the farmers harvest the opium and sell it off - and then grab the men who try to smuggle it to the syndicates' heroin labs elsewhere in Afghanistan and in global markets beyond. This would punish the traffickers and their Taliban protectors without hurting the farmers. "Once the farmers are handed their money, we'll close in on the traffickers' trucks and labs," says a NATO general. But counternarcotics agents worry that the drug lords will find ways to get their hands on the opium anyway. The weak link in the chain...
...Marjah. In the past, the drug lords have exploited the absence of Western troops to strike alliances with Afghan officials, getting them to play the Taliban's role of protectors of the drug trade. Khan, the farmer, has seen it happen before. "When there is no Taliban, the government men take money from the smugglers to help them move drugs across the border," he says. NATO commanders say they will be on the lookout for bribe taking and will ensure that Kabul makes examples of corrupt officials. But given the prevalence of graft in the capital, it's hard...
...first NCAA men's basketball tournament, held back in 1939, had only eight teams. What a boring bracket. America's obsession with college basketball has helped the tournament, more colloquially known as March Madness, grow into a 65-team sports celebration. Every year die-hard fans and clueless cubicle dwellers alike navigate the maze of March Madness seeding brackets trying to predict the winner in their office pools. Last March, President Obama's bracket received as much scrutiny as his economic policies. The tournament season has grown so mad, in fact, that a cottage industry has sprouted around...
...article about sexual harassment and abuse of women in the armed services omits a glaring, well-documented fact [March 8]: one of the reasons so many incidents of harassment and even assault are not reported is that women who report them are routinely accused of being lesbians. Women (and men) in the military can be subject to intrusive, abusive and distracting investigations into their private lives based on a single unfounded allegation about their sexuality. As long as our nation's military has a policy that makes fear of gays and lesbians more important than punishing assault, this problem will...
...Alice in Wonderland, $34.5 million; $265.8 million, third week 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $21.8 million, first weekend 3. The Bounty Hunter, $21 million, first weekend 4. Repo Men, $6.2 million, first weekend 5. She's Out of My League, $6.015 million; $20 million, second week 6. Green Zone, $5.963 million; $24.7 million, second week 7. Shutter Island, $4.8 million; $115.8 million, 8. Avatar, $4 million; $736.9 million, 14th week 9. Our Family Wedding, $3.8 million; $ 13.7 million, second week 10. Remember Me, $3.3 million; $13.9 million, second week...