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...Taliban are stepping up not just their ambushes but their bullying. Provincial councilor Al-Haji Molavi Hamdullah Abdali told Time that Taliban threats against local people are depriving the Coalition of vital intelligence. After Pearce's death, he said, the council met with tribal elders: "We told them, 'Why are our enemies attacking from your area and why are you not stopping them?' They told us, 'It is out of our power.' They are too scared to contact government people or call for aid," Abdali said, "because the Taliban will know and they will face punishment from the Taliban...
...UC’s weekly party grants, the nascent micro-finance of Harvard’s social life. Party grants have propelled the development of a quasi-fetal social scene among the world’s most socially underprivileged animals—Harvard students—and our vital interests as students are wrapped up in their fate. We undergraduates, described as “citizen-scholars” by the UC Executive Board its Oct. 3 memorandum to Dean Pilbeam, have a right to be consulted before any decisions are made that affect our lives as students, particularly those...
...rough-and-tumble markets of China and India, a new generation of expats--they prefer "global executives," thank you--haven't yet had a chance to sign up for membership. They're too busy chasing local talent, adapting to a wildly different culture and riding phenomenal growth in markets vital to their companies' futures. And when they get back to the U.S., make no mistake, they'll jump the queue to the corner office...
...fact that so many of the vital decisions shaping South Africa's future are made first within the ranks of the ruling party has prompted the country's small opposition parties to accuse the ANC of remaining true to the Stalinist traditions of its days as a guerrilla movement. But if the run-up to December's vote is anything to go by, the process of choosing South Africa's next President is set to one of the loudest and most open elections in African history. The race to succeed President Thabo Mbeki when his second term ends...
...truly vital that we share what we know about how to detect and treat the disease, especially in the Third World, where resources may be woefully lacking. There are 3.5 million women in the Indian city of Pune, and there is one comprehensive breast-care facility there. In South Africa only 5% of breast cancers are caught in their earliest stage. In the U.S. it's 50%. In Kenya, a woman with the disease may have no hope at all unless she can travel elsewhere for treatment. "You just sit and wait for your death," Mary Onyango, a Kenyan breast...