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...understand all of the criticism surrounding TIME's decision to name Bernanke Person of the Year. You throw a small man in a small boat into raging, uncharted waters, and he takes it to a calm, safe place. What more could you ask for? A. George Newman Verona...
...security from its American and international mentors. How can a largely illiterate army plan the complex logistics that allow soldiers to be clothed, armed, fed and transported where they are needed? While Afghan soldiers are undeniably brave on the battlefield, their skills with anything other than basic tactics and small-to-medium firearms are limited. One frustrated American trainer of Afghan soldiers confided to me that his Afghan mortar team was going nowhere. With little understanding of geometry, the soldiers were depending on guesswork, rather than precision degrees, to aim their indirect fire - in a populated region where...
...understand all of the criticism surrounding TIME's decision to name Bernanke Person of the Year. You throw a small man in a small boat into raging, uncharted waters, and he takes it to a calm, safe place. What more could you ask for? A. George Newman, VERONA...
...everyone at the festival - and the industry across the country - is piracy. Like the latest chart topping CDs or DVDS, at stoplights around the country hawkers peddle cheap, illegal copies of the latest book titles at car windows for a fraction of the price. That's hard for small book stores like Full Circle to overcome. "The minute you have a best seller, it doesn't even take five days for book pirates to sell it on the street," laments Malhotra. "You drive down any of the main roads in Delhi, and you'll see all the latest titles...
...best-sellers in the country. A decade ago, the company wouldn't have dreamed of printing more than 7,000 copies, says Padmanabhan. When the fourth book in the "Harry Potter" series was released in 2001, Penguin sold 30,000 copies. That was a good haul, but still small in comparison to the U.S., which sold 3.8 million copies, and the U.K., which sold another million. By its last two installments, 270,000 hardback copies of each flew off the shelves. "We know that more books are being published and more books are being sold - there's just no doubt...