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Schell may be starting the next big trend in Stein Club themes. Now he needs to plan the recipe for the Pfoho signature brew...
...Laughs] I don’t know! I don’t write for the prizes. I’m happy about the Nobel Prize, but that’s not the only agenda in one’s life. I’m writing books. I plan many books and I’m working very hard. Heaven for me is achieving and finishing these novels, executing them with all the details I imagined...
Whereas some proposed closings or cutbacks at Harvard sites ranging from the information center to departments to dining halls, one Bank visitor wanted to extend thriftiness to the most intimate of student hangouts—and no, we don’t mean the plan to go old-school, circa 1636, and reopen the fireplaces to save on the heating bill. Instead, one anonymous contributor boldly suggested, “Make people buy their own toilet paper...
...made some mistakes on Afghanistan, and so has the military, but having a six-month strategic review is not one of them. No doubt, the President should have spoken with McChrystal more than once over the summer. The military's mistake was going ahead with a flawed battle plan that did not secure Kandahar, the second largest Afghan city and the fulcrum of the insurgency. That mistake made the six-month strategy review necessary, as did two other factors: the disastrously corrupt Afghan presidential election and a vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which has resulted...
...about Obama's Afghanistan strategy review has been a matter of smoke and mirrors. In a recent issue of this magazine, for example, Leslie H. Gelb - a prominent "opponent" of the current strategy - came out against the military's all-in option in Afghanistan, favoring instead a plan that would add three brigades, about 15,000 additional troops, this year. But the military's all-in option, a request for 40,000 more troops, is just that: an option. It is the upper end of three options that McChrystal has offered the President, I'm told; the low option...