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...more as an artwork than as an object that you try to figure out how to do something with it, how to manipulate it.”The installation is a multi-elemental piece that engages sight, sound, mind, and physical being. Computer and video screens flank a cluster of white, rectangular bars staggered by random height. Sounds sweep through the open space as the installation loops through three movements. The first sets a neutral and abstract tone; the second—which projects text from New York Times headlines onto the bars as processed voices recite news feeds into...
...wake of the 9/11 attacks, then President Pervez Musharraf had little choice but to support the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan - despite his misgivings over Washington's strategy there. Indeed, Pakistan had helped install the Taliban in Kabul in 1996, to ensure that the nation's western flank was controlled by a friendly regime. Even a month after the U.S. air campaign in Afghanistan began in October 2001, President Musharraf declared publicly that his government had no intention of breaking diplomatic ties with the Taliban, saying the ties provided a "useful diplomatic window" and claiming that the relationship was "fruitful...
...Clinton leaned heavily on his left flank early in his term and soon discovered no one else was following him. Bush clung to his base from the start - and never budged. (Both men were re-elected; Clinton by moving to the middle; Bush by refusing to do so.) I doubt either man would repeat their strategy if they could do it all over again. While there aren't many centrist votes in Congress to build anything around anymore, there are legislative proposals that moderate voters will appreciate...
...whisks you past gleaming gas stations and a brand-new Samsung TV factory. Then everything slows down. The highway turns single-track and becomes progressively rougher. For the last 20 miles (32 km), you bump along the ruts, distracted only by the swaying rows of silver birch trees that flank the road...
...admit Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. But Russia also has a direct interest in the outcome in Afghanistan. Moscow has made clear that a NATO failure in Afghanistan would be a disaster for Moscow, because a Taliban victory would spur an Islamist challenge all along Russia's southern flank. Better to have NATO stop the jihadists than to have to rely on Russian troops...