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Obama's statement that he would not pursue nation-building, though most likely tailored for his domestic audience, appeared to Afghans as little more than a commitment for greater military involvement to the detriment of development. "Sending in more troops is not a bad idea," says Abdul Jabar Sabit, Afghanistan's former attorney general. "But it is not the remedy for a deteriorating situation." If anything, he points out, a military surge should be used only after there is a government in place that is worth protecting. If Afghans are not committed to their government, if they don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skepticism Greets Obama's Speech in Afghanistan | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...Captain Nash, she figured in a notorious lawsuit brought by Paris dress makers against her husband in which the Judge declared: "She threw herself be neath the fatal curse of luxury. . . . Dress and dress alone seems to have been her end in life." Mrs. Nash next married Prince Mohammed Sabit Bey of Egypt. Six weeks later she induced him to divorce her. The following year she married M. Dubonnet. Her five unions have produced four children. Awaiting trial and his mother in Manhattan last week, Son Andrew admitted his identity, explained that until he boarded the President Garfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: High Seas Murder | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...daughter of Publisher & Perfumer Francois Coty; a daughter (their first, her third child); in Cannes, France. She married successively John Stanley Kirwan of Manhattan, Capt. Winfield Sifton (by whom her eldest, now 18) son of the late Sir Clifford Sifton. British Army Capt. John Victor Nash, Egyptian Prince Mohammed Sabit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Similarly based on the Swiss code is the new civil law imposed on Turkey by Dictator-President Mustafha Kemal Pasha (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). *Egyptian Prince Sabit Bey divorced himself in this convenient fashion from Mrs. Jean Nash, famed "Best Dressed Woman in the World," after they had been wed for a whole month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Swiss Laws, Greek Patriarch | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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