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...were no American soldiers on the street. They stood back and let the rioters loot. People say the Russians were better because they did more for the people," said Fahor, a 35-year-old shopkeeper in downtown Kabul. If the Americans can't even live up to the low standard set by their cold war enemies during their eight-year occupation of the country, their prospects for success in Afghanistan are dimmer than anyone may have realized...
...Josip Broz Tito - a Croat - who used communism and his charismatic personality to glue it back together. It was the most liberal of all communist countries, with a vibrant private sector, and it was relatively prosperous. At the time I was born, in the '60s, the living standard in Yugoslavia was about the same as in Greece and Spain, and considerably higher than in Portugal. Unlike our East European neighbors, we could sample the Western lifestyle and were free to travel. With a Yugoslav passport, one could pass through the Berlin Wall as if it wasn't there...
...government with currency paper when the contract went up for bid this spring. Appleton, an employee-owned company, figured to spend more than $70 million upgrading one of its three paper mills, enabling it to produce watermarks, machine-readable micropatterns and embedded threads and metal fibers--the gold standard in anticounterfeiting technology. "We see it as a way to serve our country at the same time we expand our business," says spokesman Bill Van Den Brandt...
...remedy the system,” Shope said. In an e-mail response written under condition of anonymity, one of the students, who was part of the study group that completed the problems on the 2004 final exam, wrote that working on old exams was “a standard finals period ritual.” The group “realized that there was a strong correlation between the old exam questions and the otherwise tangential topics discussed in the review section,” the student wrote. But the student said that after completing the 2004 final exam...
...exam, but [Lukin] has to somehow remedy the system,” Shope said. One of the students who was part of the study group that completed the problems on the 2004 final exam wrote in an e-mail that working on old exams was “a standard finals period ritual.” The student wrote to The Crimson on the condition of anonymity. The group “realized that there was a strong correlation between the old exam questions and the otherwise tangential topics discussed in the review section,” the student wrote...