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...Army parlance - "stay inside his lane," McChrystal is eager to take the spotlight. He will also be expected to challenge the Afghan government when it comes to behavior that undermines the war effort. An official with the Joint Chiefs of Staff expects McChrystal to warn President Hamid Karzai to shut down drug-running operations that fund the Taliban, even when their networks run uncomfortably close to Karzai's government. "[McChrystal] will tell him, 'If you don't clean this up, I will,' " says the official...
...sickness? It's possible, says Kate Strully, a sociologist at State University of New York in Albany. In her new study published in the journal Demography, Strully analyzed a variety of job loss situations - including being fired or laid off or losing a job after the entire company shut down - and found that job loss may indeed trigger serious physical and physiological illness...
...reality is, when you take advantage of the good aspects of this school and lead an involved life, there will be times things don’t work out as hoped for. But it doesn’t make sense in the face of failure to simply shut off and retreat, because you know what? The game was meant to be played. Looking back on my time here, I’m really thankful that the game exists at all, that Harvard, even though it hasn’t always been easy, offers so many chances to take those risks...
...passing up the Democrats' stimulus money, but he's turning down only 10% of his state's share, about 2% of his state's spending. He is still being portrayed as Scrooge, a heartless ideologue who wants to close prisons, fire teachers, shutter programs for autistic kids and ultimately shut down state government during a recession. And those portrayals aren't coming from Democrats. "The governor has one of the most radical philosophies I've ever seen," says state senator Hugh Leatherman, 78, the Republican chairman of the finance committee. "I'm a conservative, but this could be the most...
...report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. According to the Paris-based group, the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day than most Americans, and get nearly an hour's more sleep each night than most Japanese (who averaged just 7.8 hours of shut-eye). The study, which is based on government data and Gallup polls from 18 of the OECD's member countries, includes a broad spectrum of "social indicators" - from education spending and fertility rates to adult height and "life satisfaction" - to determine how the different societies stack up. (See pictures...