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...withdraw. The expanded Nato force will add a further six provinces to the 13 in which they presently operate; set up four new Provincial Reconstruction Teams or prts (the units that try to build civil administration in local areas); take some prts over from the Americans; and move the weight of the whole operation out of Kabul and the north toward the less stable west and south, where it will nudge up against the bigger U.S.-led counterterrorism operations in provinces like Kandahar and Zabul. By the end of this year isaf's "footprint" will cover 75% of a country...
...Fulfilling that promise with greater technical assurance and weight comes Dreams of Speaking, a gorgeous hallucination of the 20th century. Estranged from her working-class family in Perth and the "buzzing" new world that awaits her, Alice Black takes herself off to Paris to work on her manuscript where she meets Mr. Sakamoto, himself researching the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Over glasses of red wine, and later by e-mail, they toast their love of modernity. "The telephone is our rapturous disembodiment," a typical paean begins. "We breathe our selves, like lovers, into its tiny receptacle, and glide...
...have taken risky stands on principle" even when he has disagreed with them, left me feeling as if I were living in an alternate universe [Dec. 26-Jan. 2]. Klein's praise of President George W. Bush for his words about the importance of freedom and democracy holds little weight against Bush's inept response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster or his mostly failed approach to curtailing global terrorism. Perhaps it would be more appropriate for Klein to examine our President's actions rather than his words. Sandy Krawitz Bethesda, Maryland...
...Skunk Works on the third floor of the Piquette Avenue plant, Ford and his engineers experiment with lighter-weight materials that allow the company to mass-produce cars...
...looked a lot like Norah but with accessories: a sports bra to keep her breasts under wraps, a manly new flat-top haircut, a weight-lifting routine to bulk out Norah's girly shoulders, and a prosthetic penis to fill out his/her crotch. And Vincent hired a voice coach to teach her to talk like a guy--slowly, with as little expression as humanly possible, keeping those emotions under wraps and the hand gestures to a minimum...