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...More Things Change ... Re "How the Taliban Thrives" [Sept. 7]: Our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is comparable to placing one's hand in a pail of water. When you stick your hand into the water, you create an effect. When you pull it out, the water returns to its original state. While we occupy those countries, we suffer casualties and financial disaster. Once we leave, everything will return to the way it was before: tribal wars, traditions and culture. We will have accomplished nothing. You cannot change thousand-year-old cultures into democratic states in a few years...
...that the U.S. is starting to phase out some of its emergency support for banks and financial markets. But he pointedly made no mention of a full-blown "exit strategy," saying that "we must continue reinforcing recovery until it is self-sustaining." When and how governments and central banks pull back is a critical issue that still needs to be coordinated. One of the risks is that inflation could soar due to the explosion of national debt in many countries during the crisis. And early signs suggest governments have wildly different strategies. In Germany, for example, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised...
...Putting It Together” is the musical theater equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster. Just as Igor was dispatched to gather brains, arms, and legs from graves, so too does writer Stephen Sondheim pull together parts of other works to form a completely new whole. Opening tonight in the Loeb Experimental Theater, this revue of Sondheim’s work aptly combines songs from disparate musicals to form a “Reader’s Digest” of his oeuvre. For the director and cast, it’s simultaneously a simple, bountiful musical buffet...
Reviving Motown If white racism, Coleman Young and a delusional dependence on the auto industry's belief in its own virtues put Detroit where it is today, what - if anything - can pull this tragic city out of its death spiral...
...Foreign Minister after the elections, have all indicated a desire to see an orderly end to the German deployment. Any new government faces the same problem of balancing the deepening unpopularity of Germany's Afghan mission back home with the increasing demands from other NATO members for Germany to pull its weight...