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Public beheadings in Afghanistan are usually associated with the Taliban, but on Monday it was Defense Secretary Robert Gates metaphorically wielding the ax from the Pentagon platform. Gates announced that he had asked for and received the resignation of his top commander in Afghanistan, Army General David McKiernan, after McKiernan spent only 11 months in that theater. The 37-year veteran will be replaced by Army Lieut. General Stanley McChrystal. Army Lieut. General David Rodriguez, the Defense Secretary's own top military aide, is to serve in a newly created post as McChrystal's deputy...
...groups elsewhere in the Middle East. Following Saberi's release on Monday, the U.S. State Department said hers was a humanitarian issue rather than a diplomatic one, and that there was no deal linking it with the detained Iranians. "There was no quid pro quo," said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. (See pictures of the contemporary face of Iran...
...most persistent fans. There was a high-tech hipness to Time Out of Mind--the damp, echoey sound provided by producer Daniel Lanois--that doesn't exist on the new album. Everything about Together Through Life is simple: the lyrics (a collaboration with the old Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter), the instrumentation and the sound, which Dylan admits, in an interview posted on his website, is an homage to the Chess records of his youth. "I like the mood of those records--the intensity," he says. "The sound is uncluttered. There's power and suspense. The whole vibration feels like...
...This study is important and timely, given our current economic challenges, because it raises important questions as we think about rebuilding our nation and coming out of the economic recession, says David Williams, professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health and staff director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America. "We need to think about the health implications that economic changes are having in the population at large...
...longer concerned that the H1N1 flu will reach them or their immediate family in the next year, a 53 percent increase from last week’s poll. “There’s still uncertainty of what direction the swine flu could take,” said Robert J. Blendon, a professor at HSPH and director of the survey program. “But Americans are following the news closely, that’s for sure.” Of the populations surveyed, parents with children under 18 years old in school remain the most concerned. Half...