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Late in the proceedings, Martel—in an apparent jab at Willey, a member of the polo team—spoke incredulously of the notion of “middle class polo players who own horses...
There's a big problem, of course. As Chayes says, "expanding in an active theater of war is an increasingly tricky notion." At the moment, Arghand relies on the generosity of the Canadian army, which lets Chayes use its post office for shipping. A commercial air-freight service, she says, would give a huge boost to the growing number of Afghan traders who want to export. It's a classic catch-22: freight companies shy away from Afghanistan because it's so unstable, but stability will come only when Afghanistan's economy improves, which will require more investment, such...
...hammering out new Constitutions that may give them unlimited presidential reelection. The fact that Venezuelans this morning resisted that urge - and that Chavez so maturely backed off himself when he saw it - may give other countries pause for thought as well. It could even revive the oft-ridiculed notion that this might after all be the century of the Americas...
...latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, which expresses the consensus of the 16 branches of the intelligence community, is sharply at odds with most of the candidates' (and the White House's) notion that Iran is rushing to build nuclear weapons, and even contradicts a 2005 NIE finding that Iran was working inexorably toward developing a bomb. It says its finding that Iran suspended its bomb program in 2003 in response to foreign pressure "suggests it is less determined to build nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005." Even if Iran were to restart the stalled...
...second of four children in middle-class West Philadelphia; his parents Willard and Caroline divorced when he was 13. From his father, who worked seven days a week running a refrigerator company, Smith inherited his work ethic. From his mother, a school-board employee, he derived the notion that "education is the elixir for all problems," he says. "Every problem Jada and I have ever had, we found the answer in a book." The Smiths have a family library stocked with everything from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism to homeschooling texts for their children--Willow, 7, and Jaden...