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Finney insists that "the insurgents have taken a lot of hits, particularly at the high level ... We've put out several news releases about high-level commanders who have been dealt with, and that affects them. They haven't got an endless supply." He then belittled the Taliban: "They're just trying to chip away. [It's like] teasing your big sister. And they're just out to make life bloody difficult." - With reporting by Ali Safi / Kabul
...seven reports have yet to receive approval from administrators, and officials in both Harvard's central administration and at the Medical School level were hesitant to discuss prospects for approval or implementation...
...trends in Western thought eroded this attitude. In the Renaissance, the concept of individual "genius" developed as part of a larger project of extracting individual identity out of the medieval communal ideal; during the Romantic age a couple of hundred years later, when individualism reached a level close to fetishism, the importance of authorship grew correspondingly. The Enlightenment, with its fascination with the precise material origins of everything, also contributed to the Google-gotcha culture we live in today...
...time that leaders of the world's 16 biggest carbon emitters have sat down to talk about climate change?will be remembered as a lost opportunity. First of all, the 2050 pledge doesn't specify a baseline year. European leaders want to bring emissions down to 50% of 1990 levels, but host nation Japan seemed to indicate that it would be happy to use present-day levels. The difference in actual reductions would be enormous. So what appears to be a firm numerical target is just more hot aspirations?not too different from the original U.N. Framework Convention on Climate...
...Libertarian about something in this country," Bob Barr told me over breakfast in midtown Manhattan recently. It's his best pitch, an oft-used explanation of why the Libertarian Party can leverage the country's many discontents. The strongest part of his message is the delivery. Barr is a level man with a rich, assuring voice. Even in a D.C.-standard-issue dark three-piece suit, there's something warm and tweedy about him--a perfectly calm spokesman for the often cantankerous ideas of his party...