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...Gorbachev in 1990, the treaty committed the U.S.S.R, and later the Russian Federation, to reducing its military deployment in its European territories. Given that this deal was one of the landmark indications that the cold war was over, why would Putin want to provoke the West by threatening to abandon...
Instead of dumping her, M.I.T. might want to consider giving Jones an honorary degree. We're coming up on the season when universities hand out these things with abandon, often to people who never saw the inside of a classroom at this, or sometimes at any, university. These folks get honorary degrees because they gave the university a million or two from piles so large you can't even see the dent. Then she could go to the university health services and get another piece of paper stating that the résumé fib was the result of stress...
...comfort and safety of their fortified mega-bases and establishing small combat outposts and patrol bases like the one insurgents struck outside Baquba that left 20 soldiers wounded as well. Some patrol bases are well protected with blast walls and large numbers of troops. Others are little more than abandoned houses that a few platoons circle with Humvees while hunkering down inside. As a reporter frequently embedded with U.S. forces, I've visited many such patrol bases, and the sense of vulnerability at them is all too palpable. The paratroopers tasked with controlling the volatile territory on the outskirts...
...course, we can’t legislate racist attitudes out of existence, but we can give Cherokee freedmen the choice of whether to remain in the home of their cultural legacy and identity or whether to abandon a nation that has shown them little humanity...
...earned the right to call myself an air guitarist. Yet.I spent the ensuing month preparing for the next local competition. At that point, however, I was still a nonbeliever, consoling myself with the delusion that my budding love of air guitar was of the ironic sort.I was forced to abandon this stance after a particularly aggressive attempt to perfect my “power windmill†stroke. Sustaining air-induced injuries to my neck and strumming arm taught me that, though the tongue begins very much in the cheek of every air guitarist, it is not long before that...