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...less than 40%?but the choices they have made and the paths they have taken in life mirror the choices that a polarized Pakistan must also make. Should the nation move forward and be part of the modern world? Or will it seek answers from the past and retreat into a rigid interpretation of Islam? Can it do both? The sometimes violent clash between progressive moderates and dogmatic hard-liners is increasingly defining Pakistan?when it should be the resolution of that conflict that defines it instead...
...killed." Whatever happens this time will be a lot bigger--though it will likely fall short of a full-scale invasion. The last army to march successfully through Afghanistan was led by Alexander the Great. In 1842, when a British expeditionary force of 17,000 was forced to retreat from Kabul to Jalalabad, just one man--an army doctor--survived. The Soviet Union's mighty Red Army invaded Afghanistan with tanks and helicopter gunships in 1979; 10 years later, cold and defeated, its troops left the place hoping never to see it again...
...also know, or believe, or feel that a return to religion, a willingness to engage it and be engaged by it, does not necessarily entail a retreat from progressive politics: liberation theology in Latin America and inter-faith alliances in North America have certainly complicated notions of religion as alienation. That said, a return to religion does not necessarily entail a reentry into progressive politics either, for a church is not a church, let alone a temple or a mosque, and Jerry Falwell is not the minister whose non-televised words I took in, amid many tears, this past Sunday...
Needless to say, health administrator Leavell is equally convinced that women must look squarely at this issue. She began her current job with new resolve and immediately held a "retreat" at her home for her 10 female managers. She told them about her unhappy experience and invited their own tales. "It's almost like we're unconscious about it," she says. "It's there--women will say, 'It happens all the time.'" It just might be time to stop focusing on getting even and spend more time working together to get ahead...
...stone. Those big-spending supplementary budgets he derided in his stump speeches? Koizumi now thinks one will be necessary this year, after all. The three-year deadline for cleaning up banks' bad loans? Hmm, that might actually take longer. This doesn't add up to a major policy retreat, but Koizumi's waffling amid looming economic catastrophe raises some critical questions: Is he up to the task? And what does Koizumi really want for Japan? The fact is, no one really knows. Since becoming Prime Minister, Koizumi has carefully avoided the microscope even as he has basked in the spotlight...