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...have the opportunity to meet such ambitious, dynamic, brilliant individuals. And in a world where who you know, rather than what you know, is key, there is no better way to meet the challenges of the real world than with the help of the friends you make during your precious few years here...
...danger it poses. Their international standing should not rise as a result of this incident--they are an outlaw regime which might have behaved admirably during a hijacking, but an outlaw regime nonetheless. Unfortunately there is little the U.S. can do. We have rightly imposed sanctions, but sanctions do precious little good against an economy like that of Afghanistan, which was underdeveloped even before it was pounded into rubble during the Soviet invasion and the decade of civil war that followed. Interventions in this mountainous land always bring grief to the invader. Hopefully the problem will resolve itself as Afghanistan...
...Even if we get all the licenses and the permits, there will just be some people who think it is too precious a territory to touch at all," Keenan says...
...first year alone, America sent thousands of trucks, tanks, guns and bombers to Russia, along with enough food to keep Russian soldiers from starving, and enough cotton, blankets, shoes and boots to clothe the entire Russian army. The forbearance of the Russian army, in turn, bought the Allies the precious asset of time--time to mobilize the U.S. economy to produce the vast supply of weapons that was needed to catch up with and eventually surpass the Axis powers...
...around Lake Baikal. His father Yesugei was poisoned by enemies and his widowed mother Hoelun chased away from their tribe with her brood, including her eldest, nine-year-old Temujin. The outcasts ate field mice and marmots even as they fought off thieves out for their horses, the most precious of nomad property. Bitterness cultivated a heart of iron. After a half-brother grabbed a fish he had hooked, Temujin would kill the offending sibling in a hail of arrows. He never showed remorse. His mother was furious at the waste of a potential soldier in the revenge she envisioned...