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...After over two decades of vicious fighting, most ordinary Afghans in the south are willing to give NATO a chance. But if the alliance is to prevail, it will probably need to reexamine its strategy. "At the moment there is very little public support for NATO, but it is not the end of the world," said Haji Abdul Khaliq, a senator in neighbouring Uruzgan province. "If NATO wants cooperation from people they should change their strategy and stop fighting and build roads and schools...
...instant messages. Surreal, but not especially novel. Except perhaps for a few months following 9/11, politically interested people born in the 1980s have never known honorable politics. We were weaned on Monica Lewinsky; next came Florida, Iraq, Katrina, Abramoff, William Jefferson stuffing cash into his freezer, and partisanship so vicious it turns off even the proudly Machiavellian students at the IOP. JFK’s speech at Vanderbilt feels like it was from another universe—an historical curiosity, but not a compelling reason to pursue a career in politics.Current political figures, of both parties, often attribute their involvement...
...sanctuary. Then they left me to sit in one of the pews and gather my thoughts. What must it have been like for those parents 40 years ago, I wondered, knowing that their precious daughters had been snatched away by violence at once so casual and so vicious? How could they endure the anguish unless they were certain that some purpose lay behind their children's murders, that some meaning could be found in immeasurable loss? Those parents would have seen the mourners pour in from all across the nation, would have read the condolences from across the globe, would...
...Until now, murders and persecution of dark-skinned foreigners and Russian citizens of "wrong" ethnic origins had been the prerogative of the country's right-wing neo-Nazi groups. But as the state embarks on a vicious xenophobic campaign against Georgians, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (NDPI), a key nationalist body known among the initiated as the Movement Against Non-Slav Immigration, eagerly called upon its followers to support the state in exposing "the enemy" wherever they can be found - at marketplaces, in offices, at homes. While the state still pays lip service to weeding out violators...
...been conducting successful test flights for over a year. Horstmann, the Munich bank analyst, reckons there's an 80% chance that Airbus will be able to work through this crisis and bounce back in a couple of years. "But there is a danger it'll get sucked into a vicious circle of job cuts, sinking morale and political infighting," he worries. Already stretched by the A380 crisis, Airbus must decide whether it has the money and management to proceed with developing the 330-seat A350 in a bid to catch up with Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner, or focus elsewhere...