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...think he was too nice a man, not sufficiently young and limber. He wasn't a street fighter." LEE KUAN YEW, Singapore's founding father, on former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's inability to quell widespread dissatisfaction with his administration...
Where, indeed? The U.S. believes that nation-building efforts and the success of last October's presidential election have drained local support in former Taliban strongholds. There's irony in that, since the Taliban initially gained power because of its ability to quell fractious warlords and restore order. Now Hamid Karzai's government is sending out feelers to former Taliban fighters, offering some of them amnesty if they take a public oath of loyalty to the new Afghan constitution...
...economist Robert Brusca of FAO Economics following the Federal Reserve Chairman's words of concern accompanying a hike in short-term interest rates last week. "I think we have a Fed-credibility problem." Brusca is more worried about nascent signs of weakness, including eroding consumer confidence. A slowdown would quell inflationary pressures quickly, and one theory is that Greenspan's warning was part hype to justify jacking up rates so that he has room to cut them again if things deteriorate...
...incident that eventually spurred Anderson to seek House's counsel took place just before he earned his Purple Heart. While trying to quell a disturbance outside a police station one night, his unit came under heavy attack. Anderson says he saw a car that appeared to be emitting sparks drive into the middle of the melee. Instructed to start shooting, Anderson held his fire--and the car turned out to be carrying only a startled family. Afterward, Anderson claims, his sergeants told him, "'Next time, you open fire, just in case.' Basically they have a standard procedure that...
When King Gyanendra suspended Nepal's democracy last week, he incurred the wrath of the United Nations, India and several other countries. But most democracies, from the Philippines to Colombia, have failed to quell domestic rebellions democratically. With much of Nepal now controlled or dominated by Maoist insurgents, strong and centralized leadership is a stark necessity, although Gyanendra will need to somehow forge a national consensus to contain and ultimately end the insurgency...