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...Romantically - and doubtless erroneously - I continue to believe that today's insanely well-paid Packers (representing a franchise worth hundreds of millions) have some near-mystical connection with pro-football's prehistoric days, when, if the players were lucky, they might get fifty or a hundred bucks in return for getting their brains beaten out on Sunday afternoons. To put this matter simply, I can imagine the soulful, sublime and gun-slinging Brett Favre playing for the Duluth Bulldogs...
...Taliban are exploiting public frustration with the government; they say they will reintroduce their brand of radical Islamic law if they come back to power. While few want to see a return to those dark days, the allure of law - any law - is drawing some Afghans to the insurgency. If the authorities hope to crush it, then they must crush corruption first...
...outlets in the People's Republic in two and a half years. But a 19% tariff on imported ice cream takes a giant lick out of the profits. "It's an awful margin that just goes to the Chinese government rather than allowing us to make a better return," says CEO Shane Lamont. When 150 New Zealand trade officials and businessmen take off for Beijing this weekend, Lamont's hopes of seeing an end to that tariff will fly with them...
...Hammadi were higher: his life and the lives of his wife and two young children. Last summer, as the final batch of 30,000 additional American troops requisitioned by General David Petraeus was arriving in Iraq, the bus driver and his family left their refuge in Syria to return home. It had been nearly two years since they fled their neighborhood, al-Dora, after al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists killed the wife and son of Hammadi's brother. His friends and fellow refugees in Damascus warned him that Baghdad was still too dangerous, with dozens being killed daily in sectarian...
...real improvement in military family life, however, will come only when the Army can scale back its operational tempo. Currently, soldiers head to Afghanistan or Iraq for 15 months, return home for 12, and then may be redeployed overseas again. Prior to 9/11, troops generally stayed home for 24 months before being deployed abroad for 12. Getting that 15-months-away, 12-months-at-home ratio down to 12-and-12 is currently the military's most urgent management challenge, Pentagon officials say. "My goal is to come down from 15 months as quickly as we can," Mullen told...