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Outside a Target store in Orange County, California, Elbie Birch hawks his wares: ballot propositions. "Excuse me, gentlemen, are you registered voters?" Birch, a tall, burly man with a shaved head, goatee and winning smile, is a professional initiative-signature gatherer. In the past year, he has worked on gerrymandering in Florida, a casino issue in Ohio and affordable housing in Massachusetts before coming to California - the undisputed capital of direct democracy - where he is hustling a stack of nine ballot initiatives. Birch gets 50 cents to $1 for every signature he gathers...
...skepticism in Marjah too. Abdul Hadi, a student, fled the fighting along with his family on Feb. 18; now living in Lashkar Gah, he is in no hurry to return. He worries that many Taliban are just waiting for the NATO forces to move on to their next target. "I know the Taliban will come back," he says. Mohammad Hosain, a teacher from Marjah, wonders if they even left. "The Taliban does not have a uniform, so if they leave their weapons at home, they can easily move around," he says. "There is no [sign] on their face that says...
...taking over from the Americans. Although U.S. commanders carefully talk up the contributions of the 4,500 Afghan National Army soldiers (two had been killed) and police in the Marjah operation, it's no secret that the U.S. Marines and British troops are doing the heavy lifting. McChrystal's target of a 134,000-man Afghan National Army by late fall - up from 104,000 now - seems hopelessly optimistic. Training is slow, and there's a scarcity in the ranks of southern Pashtuns, who are needed the most in the Taliban's strongholds...
Taking food from Annenberg is a daring endeavor. On one hand, the ready-to-go, cooked food is an inviting target for swiping and eating later. On the other hand, Harvard University Dining Services forbids students from taking food outside of the dining hall. As the students and HUDS clash, awkwardness, confusion, and hungry stomachs prevail. It seems clear that HUDS must get a better handle on dining hall food theft and regulate the current black market of hot meal smuggling. Although bagged meals are provided, Annenberg has no substitute for missing a hot meal. Allowing students to take...
...predicting that the shock and outrage surrounding the case are overdone and will blow over. All countries fighting foreign terrorists, they say, have to engage in the occasional bit of wet work, and the Hamas commander - apparently the man in charge of taking weapons into Gaza - was a legitimate target in such spy games. "Past experience shows that disputes in this area tend to be treated as belonging to the special, sealed-off category of 'national security,'" wrote Jonathan Spyer in the Jerusalem Post. "Where states have good reasons to maintain healthy ties with one another, such incidents are rarely...