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...terror fight and combined it with capable police work. Rather than simply pouring unconditional U.S. aid into Pakistan and Afghanistan, Obama needs to federalize the assistance, working more closely with provincial and local leaders. And, as the U.S. did in Indonesia, in Pakistan and Afghanistan Obama should shift resources away from the regular army to fund a new, élite counterterrorism unit...
...free-trade agenda. He opposes the U.S. - South Korea trade deal and promised "a change from the U.S. policy approach [toward China] of the past eight years," including possible new restrictions on Chinese imports. The deteriorating American economy and job picture will make it nearly impossible for Obama to shift and become a free trader. Yet a regionwide free-trade area will eventually be Asia's future. Obama needs to embrace that, while simultaneously investing in American job retraining and working with internationalist elements of his party to convince average Democrats that, in the long run, retreating from trade will...
...power play, slamming the puck through traffic and past the right post to tie the game at three. Harvard was hit with two more penalties before the period was over, including a 5-on-3 at the halfway point. Although the Crimson was able to kill those penalties, the shift to defense may have limited Harvard’s chances on the net at a critical time. The Crimson recorded seven penalties over the course of the night. “We’ve been working real hard on eliminating our penalties because they have cost...
...talks, although he is expected to address the gathering after the end of the summit. The meeting, Barnett says, is "explicitly a response by the Dalai Lama to criticism that his charisma has cramped any space for real discussion." But no one is expecting Tibetans to suddenly shift course from the "middle path," which advocates for negotiating with Beijing for autonomy, not independence, and has been steered so carefully by their spiritual leader for the past 30 years. Instead, the summit will be considered a success if it reaches some consensus on how to choose the Dalai Lama's successor...
...Jacobs says he does not expect a huge shift in recounting residual votes. "The bigger issue is how we handle these absentee ballots [which are the subject of the Franken lawsuit]," he says. Mark Jeranek, who voted for Franken, cast an absentee ballot in Beltrami County, located in northwestern Minnesota, that was rejected because he didn't sign the envelope in which he placed his ballot. The Franken campaign sent him an affidavit that he is considering signing. "I don't want to be a cause for revolution, but at the same time I want my vote to count...