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These are, of course, difficult times to develop parks, and the idea that Afghans would turn away from their traditions devalues the familiar analogies between kite flying and Afghan politics that became famous in the bestselling novel The Kite Runner. On Kite Hill, as in the book, the kite string is textured in glue and glass, and can slice a sleeve or draw blood from a finger as it un-spools skyward. Once you've got your kite in the air, the aim is to cut down another kite - these battles can draw in dozens of combatants. And usually...
Rookies Brian Rogers and Scott Prozeller have also made valuable contributions to the team, combining for six goals and six assists. Rogers in particular should be considered the front runner for Ivy Rookie of the Year, although he will be challenged by Princeton’s Sanner and Dartmouth keeper Sean Donovan (10 starts...
...agreement that could help prevent the state from running dry. And his potential successors are also formidable go-getters with forward-thinking credentials - including former governor and current attorney general Jerry Brown, golden-boy San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Brown, the early front runner, was widely mocked as Governor Moonbeam back in the 1970s, but some of his ideas - including energy efficiency, as well as the emergency-communications satellite that inspired his nickname - no longer seem so flaky. (Download a PDF on California's industries, labs and technologies...
...risk that the Horn of Africa will become a new center of global terrorism, it's not quite there. Much is going to depend on personnel. If the new President of the E.U. is a person of international stature (as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the front-runner for the post, plainly is), able to project Europe's view while convincing the smaller members of the union that their voices count, then Europe is going to be a bigger player internationally. In time, this could be to the enormous advantage of the U.S., which has neither the will...
...expanded membership, has set off a race for the E.U.'s top job. The treaty creates two powerful new positions: President of the European Council and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, effectively the E.U.'s Foreign Minister. Blair is seen as front runner for the presidency. (See pictures of the George W. Bush-Tony Blair friendship...