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...members still at large in Afghanistan, a task that will be difficult to complete until the new government of Hamid Karzai is able to extend its authority beyond the capital of Kabul. The U.S. speaks optimistically of Karzai building an Afghan national army, but power struggles between local warlords threaten to scuttle that plan and plunge the battered country into a new season of chaos...
...digs. He directed his first short, The Night Watchman, in 1938. But it took a wartime assignment to bring out the comic fatalist in Jones. With Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, he hatched the Private Snafu shorts--irreverent sketches of an Army recruit whose laziness and general bad attitude forever threaten to hand victory to Hitler and Tojo. By war's end, Jones was infusing the brisk sauciness of these cartoons into his civilian work...
...didn’t the janitors threaten to strike...
...offer parity wages to its non-union janitors. Still, if Tuesday’s civil disobedience had the effect the union claims it did—of embarrassing Harvard into accepting union demands—one wonders how much the union sacrificed in wage hikes because they could not threaten a strike...
While the remaining election monitors may appear to help the situation on the surface, they actually threaten to make the situation in Zimbabwe worse. The United States should consider the pitfalls of election monitors as it debates whether weapons inspectors should be sent back into Iraq. International observers, deployed under the wrong conditions, can give ruling strongmen the one thing that violence cannot: a veneer of legitimacy...