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Careful What You Wish...
...quiet cultivation of Kayani, who has acted more aggressively against insurgents in recent months, with full-scale aerial assaults. On Aug. 6 he launched a massive operation in Bajaur tribal agency, an insurgent-ridden area along the border. But the exercise was a lesson in being careful what you wish for. Pakistan's army was built to fight a conventional war with India and is ill equipped to handle violence at home. Three weeks of air strikes forced more than 260,000 residents to flee the region; many ended up in squalid camps. They have turned their wrath...
Incoming freshmen officially are entering under the Core, but can switch to Gen Ed next year if they wish...
...might imagine, I cannot talk about the departure of any specific faculty member,” Cutler said in an e-mail. “I can only say that Lisa Martin is a terrific scholar, a wonderful person, and a great teacher. I wish her all the best.”After a few months, Harvard made a counter-offer, but Martin, who was hoping to move to a new home, said that although the University’s new housing package was structured differently, it did not actually enable her to move.Rosenblum, who said she advocated for Martin...
Much of Cameron's strength derives from self-belief: not the fragile veneer of assurance acquired or affected by most politicians but a deep-down certainty that protects him from dark nights of the soul. "There's no massive thing I've done [where] I lie awake thinking I wish I'd never done that," he says. From a stable, loving family, sent to a school that instills a sense of entitlement in even its dullest pupils, Cameron seems never to have doubted that he was destined for great things. "He came to Oxford equipped with a much more complete...