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After Almond’s well-received reading, several customers queued up to print copies of their book and get them signed by the author, whose joked that his goal for his evening was “to outsell Sarah Palin...
...waiver is not just a symbolic gesture of HLS’s support for public service; it can mean the difference between a student starting on their career path in the public or private sectors. HLS will form a committee to suggest a successor to the Public Service Initiative whose recommendation will be announced in March of next year, and we hope this body will take provide some sort of adequate replacement to provide financial incentives for public sector work...
Ronald Reagan would have done it differently. He would have told a story. It might not have been a true story, but it would have had resonance. He might have found, or created, a grieving spouse - a young investment banker whose wife had died in the World Trade Center - who enlisted immediately after the attacks ... and then gave his life, heroically, defending a school for girls in Kandahar. Reagan would have inspired tears, outrage, passion, a rush to recruiting centers across the nation...
...asked him what instructions he had given the military to make the next 30,000 troops more effective than the 21,000 troops he sent last March, whose presence didn't seem to improve the situation on the ground at all. "Look, the fact that there were increased casualties this year I think is to be expected from increased engagement by our forces." True enough, but the NATO coalition lost ground to the Taliban this year, by Obama's own admission. And the President could only come up with speed of deployment and a clearer sense of mission as strategic...
President Obama referred to Pakistan no fewer than 25 times during his West Point speech, stressing that his Afghanistan strategy cannot work without the help of its southeastern neighbor. But he made no mention of another neighbor, whose support was crucial in defeating the Taliban in 2001: Iran...