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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: What Next in Afghanistan?
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. What Next in Afghanistan? The West seems to have lost its orientation in the Hindu Kush – that “graveyard of empires,” as it was called after the British disaster in January 1842, when only one man survived an expedition 16,000. What, many people are asking, is NATO really fighting for in Afghanistan? In 1989, when the Cold War ended, the Red Army had already withdrawn ...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Thursday, December 31, 2009. The joy in the celebration of the New Year lies in the fact that each man, woman, and child is essentially reborn. All of the mistakes, the indiscretions, regrets and wrong turns of the previous year can, if we let them, fall away into distant memory. We have three hundred and sixty five brand new opportunities to be a healthier person, a nicer person, a better person.
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: August 2014
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. 7 Habits of Highly Positive People: The Secret to Constant Happiness. 1 Don’t let bad things pull you down. Highly positive people take bad things and see the good things in them. As Randy Pausch once said, “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”. A great example is Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential women in the. She attended an affl...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: India - a reluctant rising power
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. India - a reluctant rising power. Some countries are naturally at ease with the concept and the reality of strategic power. Such was clearly the case of France under Louis XIV, the Sun King in the seventeenth century, and such is the case today of China, whose leadership is comfortable with the balance-of-power games of classical Europe. It is natural for India to proclaim...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: August 2010
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Growth in a Buddhist Economy (Jeffrey Sachs). I have just returned from Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom of unmatched natural beauty, cultural richness, and inspiring self-reflection. From the kingdom’s uniqueness now arises a set of economic and social questions that are of pressing interest for the entire world. For the world’s poorest countries, such questions are n...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: Growth in a Buddhist Economy (Jeffrey Sachs)
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Growth in a Buddhist Economy (Jeffrey Sachs). I have just returned from Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom of unmatched natural beauty, cultural richness, and inspiring self-reflection. From the kingdom’s uniqueness now arises a set of economic and social questions that are of pressing interest for the entire world. For the world’s poorest countries, such questions are n...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: Obama Undermines the UN Climate Process
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Obama Undermines the UN Climate Process. The reality is that the world will now wait to see if the US accomplishes any serious emissions reduction. Grave doubts are in order on that score. Obama does not have the votes in the Senate, has not displayed any willingness to expend political capital to reach a Senate agreement, and may not even see a Senate vote on...One o...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: Afghanistan’s Customary Laws
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Afghanistan’s Customary Laws. Originally an ancient honor code, Farhang ensures the dominance of the oldest male of any household, followed by married sons, unmarried sons, and grandsons, then wives (with the youngest at the bottom). Collective decisions are taken by patriarchs in councils called jirgas , where all have to be in agreement. Women are excluded from collec...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: May 2011
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Remember your Victory Dance. Are what you charge. You are what you believe. You are the books you’ve read and the people you’ve met. And you are an empty sheet of paper in the minds of every person you encounter. It’s not easy being yourself. It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you. And it’s not the years, it’s the mileage. AND DON’T FORGET THAT. Tell the truth, to tell ...
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger: Develop your hearts!!
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Notes from an Accidental Blogger. This online diary captures the best of my readings, analysis and opinions. Sunday, September 11, 2011. One of my great privileges of my work is that i get to meet, observe and know leaders at a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, universities etc. If you are a leader, you can develop the heart of the people you lead by bringing them together to serve at a local charitable organizations in your community that helps the less fortunate. By ...