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...reduce the chances of a truly representative government taking the Taliban’s place. Although America’s armed forces continue to search for members of the al Qaeda network, we cannot wait until the military operations are over to begin working in the political sphere to establish a stable interim government to protect the Afghan people...
...reduce costs. Harvard is an institution of teaching and research, and at a certain level it makes sense for the University to look to more specialized firms to provide its services—after all, Harvard is not in the security guard business. If it was reluctant to establish a wage floor, the University will be even more hesitant to tie its hands and to restrict itself to the direct hiring and oversight of workers. Until Harvard brings all of its security guards and janitors back in-house, the conflicts over campus labor policies will continue; by making outsourcing...
...novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which later became an Oscar-winning film. In 1964 he traveled cross-country in a psychedelic bus with a group of hippie pals called the Merry Pranksters. The trip, immortalized by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, helped establish the antiestablishment in the public imagination. "I like to stir things up," Kesey once said. "I'm the Minister of Misinformation...
...special-ops soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan rose to 300, with hundreds more headed in to hunt down the remnants of the al-Qaeda brass. Members of Britain's elite Special Air Service regiment are said to be assisting American commandos in the manhunt. The Pentagon may still establish forward bases in Afghanistan to stage special-ops search-and-destroy missions alongside the Pashtun in the south and to secure humanitarian supply lines in the north. But American military planners remained leery of sending ground troops into the caves to root out the enemy in person. They would prefer...
...They try to slow the game down, and we want to establish a quicker tempo,” Turano said. “It’s difficult for us when they’re always clutching and grabbing...