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...Many military experts have long advocated paying more attention to Africa. While Central Command has had a small military contingent based in Djibouti (called Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa or 'CJTF-HOA') for several years, intelligence agencies and military officers have warned that the US should be spending more time and money in Africa...
...American people. Has anybody done a better job of getting all this information together and trying to present this?" Ware added that it's an important part of congressional oversight "to identify shortcomings and keep pressure on to fix them." And indeed, the report did take intelligence agenices to task, declaring that "Intelligence community managers and analysts must provide their best analytic judgments about Iranian W.M.D. programs and not shy away from provocative conclusions or bury disagreements in consensus assessments...
...yesterday in Ohio when he unloaded on the Bush Administration's handling of the war in a speech that, with a few tweaks, could have been delivered by an anti-war Democrat? "I think one of the biggest mistakes we made was underestimating the size of the task and the sacrifices that would be required," McCain said. "Stuff happens, mission accomplished, last throes, a few dead-enders," he went on, citing some of the, ah, less-than-accurate assessments of the Iraq venture made over the years by the President, Vice President and secretary of defense. That kind of overly...
...write about insecurity unless it's real insecurity? I want the reader to experience what [Hannah's] experiencing." Sittenfeld's relationship with chick lit has never been quite comfortable - but in a way, chick lit has never been totally comfortable with itself. As a genre it sets itself the task of chronicling the (literarily underserved) lives of contemporary single women - but then, all too often, it suffers a failure of nerve and settles for regurgitating exactly the clichés about boys and shopping and cattiness that it should be rectifying. "I almost feel like the premises of plenty...
...Senate on Tuesday, Edward “Ned” Lamont, Jr. ’76 now needs to prove that he can unify his party and constructively lead his state in a divided Senate.In an interview with The Crimson last Friday, Lamont said he was up to the task.“I started out a business from scratch. I think I can work with people,” he said, arguing that his business success will spill over into the political arena.Lamont’s opposition to the Iraq War was a major issue in the primary...