Word: roberts
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Zimbabwe is in the midst of a slow-motion, man-made disaster. It is as if the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China were state-sponsored tragedies. President Robert Mugabe's internal terrorism does not simply consist of starving and harassing hundreds of thousands of people; it also amounts to the systematic demolition of Zimbabwe's one small hope of democracy. For a brief moment after the elections in late March, it seemed that the former freedom fighter might redeem his dictatorial legacy by acknowledging that the opposition had actually defeated him. But it turns out that...
...variety of compost recipes from its waste and sells them to more than 200 local vineyards.) But first you need to get citizens on board. In San Francisco, about half its residents participate in the curbside program, along with thousands of restaurants. The key is getting over what Robert Reed of Norcal Waste Systems calls the "ick factor"--the fear that leaving food in a curbside bin will lead to bad smells and marauding rodents. But that problem can be solved with biodegradable bags, and ultimately putting food scraps out for recycling shouldn't be any different from leaving...
...were joined on the podium by Raila Odinga, who has fought the political establishment from birth, and in March was appointed Prime Minister of Kenya following a disputed election. Odinga laid into his fellow leaders for keeping quiet about another disputed election earlier this year - for Zimbabwe's presidency. Robert Mugabe, the incumbent widely believed to have been defeated, has not yet released the results...
...long article by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the national interest. If not always convincing, it is an effort to explain why specific ways of looking at the world keep cropping up among American policymakers, decade after decade. Rice joins - to name but a handful of luminaries - Robert Kagan, Michael Mandelbaum, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Fareed Zakaria, all of whom have recently written thoughtful, widely read books on American foreign policy and how it needs to be recalibrated after the Bush years...
...years following its 1947 creation, bomber pilots-think of the cigar-chomping Curtis LeMay-largely ran the U.S. Air Force. That changed starting in 1982, when an unbroken chain of nine fighter-pilots-turned-four-star-generals took charge. Which is why Monday's announcement that Defense Secretary Robert Gates was tapping General Norton Schwartz, currently running the Pentagon's globe-girdling transportation network on land, air and sea, to be the beleaguered service's 19th chief of staff, meant more than your average military promotion...