Great Expectations

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AP 2010-03-31

1. President Barack Obama gets a first-hand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and ramped up. During a surprise visit to Afghanistan, Obama applauded US troops and Afghanistan's campaign against insurgents, but told Afghan leaders they need to d

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Ted Hughes I climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark. Evil air, a frost-making stillness, Not a leaf, not a bird,-- A world cast in frost. I came out above the wood Where my breath left tortuous statues in the iron light. But the valleys

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SSS 2010-08-13

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