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...complete seriousness—“Pimpin’ ain’t easy”) feel worthless, your friendly neighborhood John Song will demolish Harvard’s already below-average self-esteem in a list of the top three reasons why Yale will prevail in The Game...
Signaling America's resolve to prevail is essential, as Gates notes, because as long as Afghans and others in the region believe the U.S. military's presence in Afghanistan is finite, they'll hedge their bets. And hedged bets right now work in the Taliban's favor because, as General Stanley McChrystal has warned, it is the insurgents who have the momentum. (See "Multimedia: The War in Afghanistan Up Close...
...calculations of ordinary Afghans could change, of course, if they believed the U.S. was there to stay and had the will and capability to prevail. But, as Gates also notes, the U.S. military is not in Afghanistan to stay, and Obama is under growing domestic political pressure to find an exit strategy from a costly war whose importance to U.S. national security has grown murky. (See pictures of Afghanistan's mean streets...
...foundation has denied ties to the Iranian government. An Alavi attorney did not return calls or e-mail from TIME seeking comment, but has stated that the foundation is cooperating with federal authorities and would prevail in court. Calls and e-mail to the Iranian mission at the United Nations were not returned. (Watch a slideshow of the styles of Muslim women...
...opposition to a broad array of gay rights. But those concerns were mostly ignored, as many other activists insisted that time was on the side of gay marriage. They argued that steady work in showcasing how important marriage was to gays, and how nonthreatening it was to others, would prevail...