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...worst humanitarian crises. I must take issue, however, with the authors' contention that the country cannot save itself. It is true that Congo needs a great deal of international support to hold elections, develop infrastructure and put an end to the insecurity in the east. But real progress will occur only when all of Congo's leaders and citizens decide to make things better for themselves. If there is one lesson we can learn from Africa's history, it is that the best solutions to the continent's problems almost always come from within. Laura Seay Goma, Democratic Republic...
...There’s a whole thing about the institutional culture that basically ignores family responsibilities,” Whyte said, pointing to the numerous meetings—like the monthly faculty meetings that take place at 4:00 pm on Tuesdays—that occur at times inconvenient for faculty with children. “If you’re a single parent it’s very difficult. There's a part of the institutional life of Harvard that you just miss...
...worst humanitarian crises. I must take issue, however, with the authors' contention that the country cannot save itself. It is true that Congo needs a great deal of international support to hold elections, develop infrastructure and put an end to the insecurity in the east. But real progress will occur only when all of Congo's leaders and citizens decide to make things better for themselves. If there is one lesson we can learn from Africa's history, it is that the best solutions to the continent's problems almost always come from within. Laura Seay Goma, Democratic Republic...
...internal debate, according to sigint - signals intelligence - picked up in this period. Bin Laden's initial calculation was that either America wouldn't respond to the attacks or that its response would mean the U.S. Army would soon be sinking in an Afghan quagmire. That, of course, did not occur. U.S. forces - despite the mishap of letting bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and most of the organization's management escape - had managed to overthrow the Taliban and flush al-Qaeda from its refuge. The group was now dispersed. A few of its leaders and many foot soldiers were captured or dead...
...Fall of Baghdad, written as the United States prepared its attack, said that an American invasion of Iraq would be the best possible outcome for al-Qaeda, stoking extremism throughout the Persian Gulf and South Asia and achieving precisely the radicalizing quagmire that bin Laden had hoped would occur in Afghanistan. A second book, Crusaders' War, outlined a tactical model for fighting the American forces in Iraq, including "assassination and poisoning the enemy's food and drink," remotely triggered explosives, suicide bombings and lightning-strike ambushes. It was the playbook. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...