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...brethren are hiding in these same saw-blade mountains to launch attacks on NATO forces across the border. The bombings are less frequent and the kidnappings, he says, have gone "from 50 a day to zero." Bringing music back to Peshawar is one thing; extending the Pakistani government's writ into the forbidding ranges outside the capital - where the Taliban and al-Qaeda have taken root among outlaws and drug and gun smugglers - is of a different order of magnitude. "The measure of our success isn't killing the enemy. It's opening markets, schools and courts," Khan says...
...Maybe not, but what comes out of Elmendorf's office is just about the closest thing there is to holy writ in Washington these days. In a nondescript building across a freeway from the Capitol, on a floor where J. Edgar Hoover once housed the FBI's fingerprint files, the CBO has for decades been regarded as the unbiased scorekeeper in the capital's never-ending budget battles, which alone gets to judge whether legislation will add to or lighten the national debt. A bumper sticker posted on a billboard in the hallway gives you an idea of what passes...
...heart bypass that covers everything from pre-op to surgery to full recuperation. Most broadly, there's global care, which provides access to a diverse team of caregivers who cover all of a patient's needs for a single premium over the length of a policy - essentially episode care writ large...
...SILENCE = DEATH” is the proclamation glowing on the lobby walls of the Carpenter Center these days. That slogan, writ under a pink triangle, was the icon that fueled a revolution in AIDS activism in New York 20 years ago. Now this historically significant image has resurfaced for “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993,” encouraging Harvard to speak up about AIDS and explore its relevance to the community. The exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the formation of ACT UP New York as well as the premiere...
...rights. They charge that Calderón targeted the electricity union for backing his political adversaries and protesting against his free-market policies, and accuse him of seeking only unions that are weak and loyal to the government. The deployment of thousands of riot police to inform his writ underscored such criticism. "The police and military assault on the electricity workers is a serious setback in the precarious democratic life of our country," wrote columnist Luis Hernández Navarro in the daily La Jornada. "It establishes a nefarious precedent, taking us back to the darkest eras of authoritarianism...