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Bush's challenge right now is difficult and twofold: he must remind Americans of the U.S.'s lofty purpose in Iraq while getting them to accept the gritty reality on the ground. And only if they re-embrace the former will they reconcile themselves to the latter. So it was fortuitous for him that two men came to the rescue last week and laid the groundwork for this complicated message. On the higher stratum, Blair touched down in Washington for six hours and gave a stirring address to Congress that portrayed the Iraq campaign as nothing short of a call...
Here at last is physical evidence that the central weakness in dyslexia is twofold. First, as many dyslexia experts have long suspected, there is an inherent difficulty in deriving sense from phonemes. Second, because recognizing words doesn't become automatic, reading is slow and labored. This second aspect, the lack of fluency, has for the most part not been widely appreciated outside the research community...
...here in the district of Umphang on a twofold mission: to understand the dark past of one of Thailand's top tourism destinations, and to seek some closure for an ailing man. That destination is the World Heritage-demarcated Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary and the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, which comprise an area of surpassing beauty and, until recently, myriad dangers. And that ailing man, Dr. Boonma Kanthakat, is my 72-year-old father-in-law, who is terminally ill with lung cancer...
Lewis describes his role for the council as twofold. One facet, he says, is education. Lewis says he tries to point council leaders in the right direction as they attempt to muster an effective voice for students—“how to make the best argument for things that are important...
...general population, either because they have political support there or because they terrorize civilians into protecting them. (My guess is that in Iraq today both conditions are met.) So the strong power has to hunt the enemy not on the battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war--which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before...