Updated: 11/13/09 9:26 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan — The big story here, underreported so far, is the emergence of coordinated American and Afghan efforts to bring Taliban leaders and fighters in from the cold.
Updated: 11/13/09 9:27 AM
WASHINGTON — Democrats have some thinking to do after this month’s elections, but Republicans don’t have time to think. They’re too busy trying to survive the party’s internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia.
Updated: 11/13/09 9:26 AM
WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings, some commentaries have examined the damage to the U. S. Army from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few have spoken about the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, as an extreme version of what can happen with an overstressed force.
Updated: 11/12/09 9:22 AM
WASHINGTON — One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value “has never dropped to zero,” a boast that surely sets a record for minimal-ism. Still, the world’s appetite for gold as an investment option is intensifying. Last month, India purchased 200 tons of gold at $1,045 an ounce, before the price topped $1,108 on Monday. China, too, may increasingly diversify from paper — i. e., bonds — into gold, the price of which, some experienced investors believe, could soar to $2,500 an ounce in three to five years. One reason for all this is U. S. behavior.
Updated: 11/13/09 9:25 AM
Sept. 28 may go down in Buffalo “meteorologica” as the 2009 Monsoon of September, similar to the October Surprise of ’06 or the Blizzard of ’77. I just know it took me — and, by the speed and number of vehicles surrounding me on the road, many others — two hours to drive to work from my home in Hamburg, a 14.8-mile trip that usually lasts 20 to 30 minutes.
Updated: 11/13/09 9:25 AM
It is particularly frustrating to read J. D. Crane’s recent Another Voice, since it suggests a profound lack of understanding of what this community is asking for, and a refusal to take responsibility for his company’s actions.
