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...order to work on political campaigns, Nugen deferred a master's degree in business administration at the University of Missouri in his hometown of St. Louis. He puts a lot stock in team building. Despite the compressed schedule, on the first Saturday of July he took his top nine aides white water rafting on the lower Eagle River in the mountains above Denver. "It was fun watching teammates getting tossed into the river, especially after they bragged how great they would be," says Nugen, who was "white knuckled" but stayed on the boat, earning bragging rights for the next...
...Argentina rallied with some spot-up shooting; it helped them that Bryant jacked a couple of brick threes early in the U.S. possession, a somewhat annoying habit that could bite the Yanks in the final (Bryant had another bad three-point shooting night, as he missed seven of his nine attempts, though that's clearly nit-picking when a team is blasting its opponents by an average of 30.3 points in the Olympic tournament...
...found with nine tons of opium and heroin in his basement. So what? Now there are hundreds of tons of heroin in basements across Helmand ... Drugs were three times less [under Akhunzada] than they are today. The province was in our hands. Schools were running, women's associations were running, clinics were running, hospitals were running, girls and boys were going to school. There was peace. We removed Akhunzada on the allegation of drug-running, and delivered the province to drug runners, the Taliban, to terrorists, to a threefold increase of drugs and poppy cultivation. To the closing of schools...
...want to branch out and achieve something like you have done? -Jocelyn Gibbons ALEXANDRIA, VA.Go for it! I didn't plan to start a new career when I did this, and it took a lot of courage to send out those query letters. I sent 15, and I got nine rejection letters, five no responses and one person who wanted to see me. If it's something you enjoy, put the determination and will behind it and see what happens...
Less than a week after the court's decision, MILF insurgents attacked 15 towns on Aug. 11 in Mindanao's North Cotabato province, killing at least nine people. Around 130,000 people were displaced by the North Cotabato violence, according the World Food Program, which is supplying refugees in the area. Fighting soon spread to neighboring areas, driven, says Lingga, by frustration with the political deadlock in peace negotiations...