Word: abandoned
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Does this mean I'm ready to abandon that video altar in my living room? Oh, God, no. When my TiVo box was finally replaced, I ran back to my big-screen TV like a child reunited with his mother. (Not as fast as my kids, who quickly began TiVoing a new stash of Clone Wars episodes...
...construction “would be a serious step back in the relationship you’ve built with all of us.”City Councillor Mark Ciommo similarly argued that with “all the bright minds” at Harvard, it would be irresponsible to abandon construction of the science complex. “There’s too many vacant properties in this community as it is,” Ciommo said, noting that Harvard recently purchased land in Brighton without explicitly outlining plans for the property. Spiegelman responded that the University?...
...opportunity for Russia to press for greater accommodation of some of its top concerns. Russia expects the Obama Administration to scale back U.S. plans to deploy a missile-interceptor system on Russia's doorstep in Poland and the Czech Republic; it also expects the new team in Washington to abandon the Bush Administration's effort to press reluctant European allies to admit Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. But Russia also has a direct interest in the outcome in Afghanistan. Moscow has made clear that a NATO failure in Afghanistan would be a disaster for Moscow, because a Taliban victory would...
Gareth Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister who's now president of the International Crisis Group, has just published a book on R2P. If something proves difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it," he argues. Rather, you "reinforce and update" it. Initially, he says, that would mean sending more soldiers and money. Others wonder whether the U.N. is doing not too little but too much and is in danger of falling into the same trap as NATO in Afghanistan and the U.S. in Iraq: the more robust the mission, the harder it is to leave. Alex de Waal, program...
...Holbrooke's unenviable task, then, will be to persuade Pakistan's security establishment to abandon such accommodations with Taliban militants operating on their territory and to reorient itself away from preparing for war with India and toward counterinsurgency at home. Tackling the Kashmir issue would be a start, but that's more easily said than done. India has long rebuffed the principle of international mediation on what it insists is an internal issue. As long as the question of where Pakistan's and India's borders are drawn remains a point of potentially hostile contention, Pakistan's ambiguous relationship with...