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...than 90% of the value of the gulf region's exports. To meet the economic demands of their exploding populations, Middle Eastern countries have to sell their oil somewhere. And if those countries discriminated against a buyer like the U.S., arbitrageurs would create a gray market before you could gun your Mustang...
...Twenty boys is all we need to defend this base," he says with a glance around his embattled domain. "Plus a couple of rocket launchers and a machine gun. We can also call on fire support from tanks back at the second line." The boys come up for four or five days at a time, then rotate with a brother or cousin...
...meal of stale bread dunked in thin soup and drink strong black tea. After finishing, two of the boys turn to karambol, a game like pool in which flat counters are flicked across a board. Farid, another section commander, sits intently loading an ammunition belt with machine-gun rounds. Allah Mahmad lounges on one of the beds and talks wistfully of wanting the kind of education for his four sons that he never got. "Right now the two eldest are being taught by mullahs," he says with a laugh. "It's not great...
Harvard is not holding a gun to anyone’s head and demanding that he accept $7.50 an hour. To suggest that somehow Harvard has an obligation to pay workers more is to say that Epps or McCarthy or anyone else has an obligation to throw money in a homeless man’s cup. The PSLM is merely the mugger’s gun to the figurative heads of Harvard administrators. That members of our esteemed Faculty should support coercive seizure of property is disappointing, at best, but sickening at its very heart...
...Yesterday, I met with several other heads of agencies to discuss planning and setting up refugee camps for the Afghan new arrivals in Pakistan's "tribal areas" - places where smuggling, gun-running and tribal feuds take place with little oversight and control from the central government. I also received a lengthy email about anthrax containing detailed procedures for handling threat letters...