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...Powell said Americans needed to keep a different image in their minds: that of an American Muslim mother of a Bronze Star-winning Army solider who died in Iraq resting her head on her son's gravestone at Arlington Cemetery. Speaking as a solider who rose from a raw recruit in the 1950s to the Army's top job 35 years later, Powell said, "We've got to stop polarizing ourselves in this...
...this weekend. Nearly every player’s scores plummeted on day two, earning the Crimson a ninth-place finish ahead of both Cornell and Penn, the host of the tournament. A standout performance by freshman Mark Pollak anchored the team. With individual scores of 71 and 77, the recruit was the only player not to blink on day one. “My game had been finally turning around, and I was pretty confident going in,” Pollak said. “I kind of had my game going. I had really been struggling around the greens...
...better strategy might be to cut at the roots of this dissatisfaction with the central government. The Taliban has capitalized on widespread disillusion with corrupt, centrally appointed officials to recruit to its cause. Few Afghans feel that they have an adequate outlet for settling grievances, like land disputes, so they are more likely to turn to Taliban courts that have sprung up in government vacuums. Real reconciliation, says Nathan, should be taking place at the grass roots, with Afghans who have become alienated from the government. If they can be persuaded that the government is looking after their needs, they...
...future. “The real challenge for us is that we’re trying to set down a research agenda that will look good 50 years from now,” McFarlan said. “We wanted to tease out the major themes and then recruit the best speakers from around the world to address them,” McFarlan said. “We want future generations to feel that we basically had our fingers on the major societal trends and aspects of doing business,” McFarlane added. “We want them...
...addition, many endowments have found their alumni to be a source of recruits. Once again, having a stronger pool of students to recruit from could be a real advantage...