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...Palin Mystique Michael Weisskopf and Nathan Thornburgh's "Pipeline to Nowhere?" enlightened me on several levels [Oct. 13]. First, although paying her constituency understandably enhances Sarah Palin's popularity, it chafes me a bit. Doesn't Alaska belong to all of us? Why should part of the price I pay at the gas pump go into an Alaskan's pockets just because she lives there? Second, the story demonstrates Palin's worthiness to be McCain's running mate, since they both overstate their accomplishments. Vince Sigman, Malta, Ohio...
...that voters must do is find the candidate who fills that prescription. - With reporting by Laura Fitzpatrick/New York, Jay Newton-Small/with Obama, and Nathan Thornburgh/New York...
Coming into Saturday’s contest, Cornell quarterback Nathan Ford hadn’t taken a sack in the first three games, despite attempting 111 passes in the Big Red’s 3-0 start. Harvard managed to get to Ford twice against 53 pass attempts, the first two sacks Cornell has surrendered on the season. Both sacks came on a second-quarter drive for the Big Red, where captain Matt Curtis dragged down Ford for a seven-yard loss on first down and senior end Peter Ajayi got to him again for an eight-yard loss...
...true reconciliation would have to include these groups, as well as the Taliban leadership, and that is an almost inconceivable task. "The West tends to imagine a rather more coherent organization than the Taliban really is," says Joanna Nathan, Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group. "They imagine there is a single element of control over a wider organization. This view that it is somehow going to be Mullah Omar sitting at one end of the table while President Karzai sits at the other as they sign a power-sharing agreement and we can all go home - that...
...capitalized on widespread disillusion with corrupt, centrally appointed officials to recruit to its cause. Few Afghans feel that they have an adequate outlet for settling grievances, like land disputes, so they are more likely to turn to Taliban courts that have sprung up in government vacuums. Real reconciliation, says Nathan, should be taking place at the grass roots, with Afghans who have become alienated from the government. If they can be persuaded that the government is looking after their needs, they are less likely to support the Taliban...