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...vital one. Though numerous armies already exist in Afghanistan, they belong to warlords, not the interim national government in Kabul. There is no single fighting body that operates in the interests of the country. For now, international peacekeepers hold the fort only in Kabul, and eventually they will want to hand over responsibility and pull out. Without a proper army in place, a return to the kind of chaos that gave rise to the Taliban and the feuding warlords is not out of the question. Says a U.S. military source: "Lawless groups like al Qaeda will again come in, fester...
...even felt among Harvard’s non-academic personnel. In November 1951 William J. Bingham ’16, a former director of athletics, suddenly resigned as chair of the Faculty Committee on Athletics in order to accept a position in what he termed “vital defense work” in Washington...
...vital centers of sound learning, as strongpoints defending individual liberty, as communities of creative thinkers, no industrialized democracy can do without them,” he wrote. “Each year will demonstrate their indispensability to this society of free...
...that the movie seemed to ... hate America? (Actually, it doesn't; Moore is as baffled as the rest of us by the obscenely high U.S. murder rate.) Iran may still be on the U.S. short list of states that support terrorism, but it also supports the most vital national art cinema of the past decade. Last year every Iranian film seemed to be about Afghanistan and its flood of emigrants into the Islamic Republic. This year another threatening neighbor, Iraq, is the focus of anxiety. Dariush Mehrjui's Bemani tells of a young Iraqi woman who befriends an Iranian soldier...
While mental exercise is getting new emphasis, physical exercise remains vital too. "The Romans said it ages ago: A sound mind and a sound body," says Dr. Robert Butler, president of the International Longevity Center in New York City. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Arthur Kramer pitted aerobic exercise against weight lifting and toning in 124 very sedentary elderly men and women without dementia--"couch potatoes," as Kramer calls them. Half were assigned to an aerobic-fitness schedule consisting of progressively longer walks; the other half did strength and flexibility exercises...