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...fear of failure in Afghanistan has lately prompted some hard new thinking in both Washington and Kabul. General Myers' candid remarks to the Brookings Institution suggests the Pentagon is trying to be more creative in its pursuit of stability in Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for his part, flashed some atypical steel last week when he fired 15 provincial officials, all of them connected to powerful warlords, on charges of abusing authority, corruption and drug trafficking. Until now Karzai has avoided conflict with the various local potentates, who often ignore the national government...
...most disappointing part of our stance on conflict diamonds is that it exposes how unprincipled our pursuit of some other products is. With our massive consumption of oil we have paid for and will continue to pay for enormous Middle Eastern arsenals. Coffee, sugarcane and cacao are all procured under brutal—even inhumane—conditions rivaling those of any diamond mine, but they are too essential to our daily lives to consider a ban. Instead, we have banned conflict diamonds, which make up a mere 3 percent share of the world diamond market. Basically, we?...
...noble life can be achieved through the pursuit of four cardinal qualities: prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice; and three religiously-based qualities: faith, hope, and love, according to Gomes...
...discussed with the masters two years ago, and again more recently; it was also discussed with the Athletic Committee. No one brought forward a rational argument against it in any of these settings. In pursuit of a less dangerous Yale game this year, other changes have also been made. For example, the parties have been moved from the Business School parking lot to Cumnock Field, so that inebriated students walking to The Game won’t be killed by the traffic on North Harvard Street as almost happened several times two years...
...crossed the road and were running towards the Israeli city of Afula, ten minutes further north. One and Two were on it too fast for us to get over to help them; they followed the gunmen off the road, and when the figures doubled back to Jenin, they gave pursuit into Palestinian territory. We were still several minutes away when they rolled into a valley on the outskirts of the city and were trapped under the sudden heavy fire of Palestinian militants and police shooting out of apartment windows and from rooftops...