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...year. "Stop giving them contracts, stop arming them, and stop using them as political tools." Robust and public prosecution of their crimes would limit the warlords' power. The West would have to shoulder more of the security burden, but that may be unavoidable if the U.S. still hopes to transform Afghanistan...
...obstinate bureaucracy can be a formidable antagonist," Gates said of the Pentagon in From the Shadows (1996), his memoir, "especially when giving up money is involved." Attempting to change the Pentagon has defeated nearly every one of Gates' predecessors. If he prevails, he will have done more to transform the Pentagon than anything his immediate predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, a self-proclaimed king of transformation, was able to accomplish. "I have no intention," Gates said late last year, "of being a caretaker Secretary...
Darwin proposed that natural selection could gradually transform a species. Scientists have observed thousands of cases of natural selection in action. They've documented that beaks of finches on the Galápagos Islands have gotten thicker when droughts forced the birds to crack tough seeds to survive. They've observed bacteria develop resistance to drugs that were believed to be invincible. Now biologists are applying DNA-sequencing technology to natural selection, which lets them identify the individual genetic changes that boost reproductive success...
...Christi E. Morrissey ’10, whose “dark horse†Adam’s House Council campaign also played off of World War II era Uncle Sam posters geared towards recruiting, used the Obamaicon.me website to transform an image of herself in Naval ROTC gear. “My whole campaign was based off of spoofing iconic images,†Morrissey says...
...often used as an obscenity, in order to reclaim the beauty of the word. Some believe the word was derived from the goddess Cunina who guarded infants in their cradles. The new perspective given to the word is indicative of the goal of the play as a whole: to transform the way the female body and female sexuality is viewed. While preparing for her audition, Smith was struck not only by the opportunity to become involved in theater, but by the significance of the show’s message. “I should be speaking this...