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...conditional on more effort by the Pakistani military to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and become more accountable and transparent. The U.S. can nudge Kayani along, says Stephen Cohen, another Brookings expert on South Asia, by providing him only with equipment useful for low-intensity conflict rather than with the F-16 jets, useful for conventional warfare, that Pakistan wants...
...something we ought to do anyway? We need to zap the economy with a big jolt of federal dollars, and it's important that those dollars be spent in timely and temporary ways. But it's just as important that they be spent in ways that promote national priorities rather than undermine them. Fast is good, but this downturn is likely to last a while, no matter what the feds do. So smart is better. (See pictures of the recession...
...details of Bush-era practices on rendition, torture and wiretapping become known, Holder will have to rewrite some of the most secret rules of engagement used by the U.S. against al-Qaeda while balancing Democrats calling for the prosecution of Bush officials who authorized those policies. Though Obama would rather look forward and not back, Holder promised in his confirmation hearings to "follow the evidence, the facts, the law and let that take us where it should...
...cash for these rainy days. Wegmans supermarkets (No. 5) offer workers free yoga classes; biotech leader Genentech (No. 7) features paid sabbaticals, on-site child care and a fitness center; its revenues jumped 25% last quarter. Hewlett suggests even struggling companies that have moved to a four-day workweek rather than fire people may promote both morale and quality of life...
...approachable libretto, many still regard the music itself as a significant challenge for the performers and the audience alike. With musical content that is strikingly 20th century, music director Yuga J. Cohler ’11 notes that devices such as irregular and syncopated rhythms contribute to the rather bizarre quality of the music, which is neither completely dissonant nor exclusively modern. “Stravinsky wrote it in a more convoluted way than was necessary,” Cohler said. However, Crutchfield believes that the challenging nature of the music will not prevent audiences from enjoying the overall production...