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...Bought Washington TIME's investigative report on lobbyist Jack Abramoff's rise and fall as one of Washington's top influence peddlers drew mail from readers who were outraged by the man's brazen wrongdoing. Other readers condemned a political culture that accepts bribery as business as usual...
...troops suffered 129 fatalities, almost twice the toll of any other year since operations began in October 2001. But Britain last week announced that it would soon start sending 3,300 new troops to the southern province of Helmand, and that the current British deployment in Afghanistan would rise from 1,000 today to 5,700 in the years to come. Canada has agreed to send 2,200 new troops to the south as well, a decision apparently unshaken by the death of a Canadian diplomat and serious injury to three soldiers by a suicide bomber...
...worked creatively with colleagues to expand opportunities for study abroad and to spur closer student-faculty engagement -- including a dramatic rise in freshman seminars and the advent of faculty-led junior seminars in several of the largest concentrations...
...while a near-doubling of roadside bombs in Iraq-from 5,607 in 2004 to 10,953 last year-might be seen as a sign that the insurgents are on the rise, the U.S. military doesn't view it that way. "The number of IEDs have gone up," Harvey, the Army secretary, said last week, "but the effectiveness of those explosions has been cut by 66 percent. And I'm not going to get into any more detail than that...
...although not directly: The current cease-fire is a product of a complicated four-way negotiation between Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Hamas. It has an incentive to maintain the cease-fire now, because it needs to implement its domestic program. In the end, a Hamas government will rise and fall not by how it transforms relations with Israel, but how it implements its promises to clean up Palestinian government...