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...even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions of the Beatles' basic rock 'n' roll sound - and who helped alchemize John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" into coherent electronic chaos...
...poor families struggling to make a living. I hope that some forward-looking politicians will be able to change India for the better. Mani Madathil Kaarst, Germany Teen Detainees I am truly appalled at how the U.S. - the self-proclaimed protector of democracy and human rights - continues to violate basic human rights at Guantánamo Bay [June 5]. Is there any evidence that detaining and questioning those prisoners has protected the lives of Americans at all? What acute danger did 15-year-old Omar Khadr pose that warranted his detention with adults? If there is evidence, then...
...Enron Verdicts I appreciated the viewpoint column on the Enron verdicts by the company's whistle-blower, Sherron Watkins [June 5]. I agree with her argument that humility is a basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often he invokes Scripture, Enron's founder, Ken Lay, will never learn that stealing is wrong until he finds some of that elusive characteristic. But there is hope: some people learn that valuable lesson in prison. Gary Roe Santa Cruz, California...
...Probable answer: No...but what's the alternative? Only the Iraqis themselves can do the door-to-door work necessary to secure Baghdad-and if Baghdad can't be secured, the war is surely lost. "For this to have any chance of success, the Army has to make some basic changes," Krepinevich says. "Our current goal is to support each Iraqi battalion with an 11-person team of U.S. advisers. The proper number is more like 30. Also, we need the very best people doing this. Right now, being an adviser to an Iraqi battalion doesn't help...
...flood a neighborhood with troops who walk the streets 24/7, who create a presence that deters mayhem, who eventually begin to build trust relationships with the locals and who, finally, make it possible to provide basic services like water, sanitation, education and electricity. According to Lieut. Colonel John Nagl, author of a recent book on counterinsurgency warfare called Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, "The tipping point comes when the residents trust you enough to tell you where the bad guys are rather than telling the bad guys where you are." coin, then, requires two things that armies...