One could have a long discussion about the validity and meaning of those minimum scores. But it's clear that Duncanville beat the marks pretty well for three of the four. So what happened with the fourth?

"Each community has put their own unique stamp on their event today, highlighting the sports they're hosting and celebrating the features and talents of their hometowns they're most proud of," he added. "This is just the beginning of what the region will look like two years from today when we join together to stage the largest international multi-sport Games ever held in Canada."

A small measure of the success is the situation at patrol base Saalang, near Lashkar Gar. Here, in a mud fort that is nominally one of the most dangerous places in the area, Royal Engineers under the protection of 1st Bn The Rifles led by Lt Col James de la Billi??re have been able to build and hold a permanent bridge over the Nahr-e-Burga canal that is transforming local economic traffic. Their compound of dusty huts and awnings surrounded by razor wire was built on a ploughed poppy field, underscoring the aim of replacing an economy based on narcotics with one centred on more mainstream activity.

2. The Chinese. Spin it how they will, President Hu Jintao's two-minute speech to the UN yesterday was a massive blow to the Warmists. In classic "Tell the foolish gwailo what they want to hear, then carry on doing exactly what we want" Chinese diplomatic style, Hu Jintao promised "determined action", while refusing to commit his country to any binding targets.

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