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...week crash course. In April, 550 new guardsmen graduated and took their posts. Since then, the number has dropped below 400 as disillusioned soldiers drift away to find other work or return to their home provinces. But as the Americans see it, in these parts that's par for the course. "The reality of doing this in Afghanistan is that it's not going to be perfect, only workable," says McDonnell."If you've got the three stages of crawl, walk, and run, right now we're doing the crawl...
...Then there are Japan's heavily indebted banks and massive public debt which totals 135% of gdp, a ratio that last week prompted Moody's Investors Service to downgrade Japan's credit rating to a level on par with Latvia. The country faces a host of other structural problems that aren't being fixed?and aren't likely to be if leaders exploit the whiff of a recovery to justify continuing a pattern of do-nothing politics. "The ruling party could use this as an excuse to stall reform," says Katsuya Okada, a Democratic Party leader. Any improvement "is only...
...Burnham. One Abu Sayyaf leader, Abu Sabaya, responded that the bounty gave the group more stature. THE U.S. Condemnation According to a report by Amnesty International, America's war on terror is threatening basic human rights to such an extent that in some categories the country is on a par with Cuba. The report cites the indefinite imprisonment of 300 men captured in Afghanistan at Camp X-Ray as an example of violation of human rights and condemned the detention without recourse to the normal legal process of more than 1,100 foreign nationals since Sept. 11. COLOMBIA Time...
...Interviews with former friends and associates as well as an archive of self-promoting videos reveal a man whose self-perception veered comically from reality. Despite declaring physical prowess on a par with Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 1.64 meters tall he had to stand on a box to perform pull-ups. He spoke in a stammer unvanquished by regular practice before a mirror. Raised in a farm-dotted suburb of Fukuoka by a truck-driver dad and homemaker mom, he attended the vocational Fukuoka Manufacturing High School so sporadically that he flunked the 10th grade...
Dramatic changes to undergraduate education—including abolishing the Core Curriculum, reforming Harvard’s sub-par advising system and addressing grade inflation—should be Kirby’s first priority. His comments indicating such a focus two days ago were a promising start...