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Gross agrees, stressing that plans must be considered “very strategically” due to financial constraints, but that one of the purposes of the Task Force on the Arts is to ensure that the arts be at the table in conversations about the future of the University...
...classic conundrum to her audience in the flow of her storytelling. So long as readers recognize that the positions debated in “36 Arguments for the Existence of God” are only the beginning of the conversation and not the end, Goldstein has accomplished her task. The job of the philosophical novelist is not so much to answer questions as to raise them...
...country born into that environment, which, say, did not have clearly defined borders, or had weak institutions, or was split internally, could spell disaster. "It could recreate the conditions for civil war," says Gressly. Major General Scott Gration, U.S. special envoy to Sudan, describes his task as ensuring "civil divorce, not civil war," and warns, "This place could go down in flames tomorrow. The probability of failure is great." (See a TIME video on the nun offering a refuge from violence in Sudan...
...decision made at a January summit in London - to offer cash to insurgents to lay down arms - amounted to a bribe. But the idea is a hard sell to soldiers who saw colleagues killed providing security last year for presidential elections stained by fraud and intimidation. Another key task, training the Afghan army and police to take over from coalition forces - the only plausible exit strategy for the coalition - is fraught with danger from Taliban infiltration, especially among police recruits. In November, five British soldiers mentoring police training were shot dead by a member of the Afghan national police...
Nevertheless, moving to the United States was a daunting task, and Sam attributed the relative ease of transition to his supportive teammates...