Word: abroader
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...make it clear that he didn't really believe his own rose-colored rhetoric. Another said he was reasserting his authority over Iraq policy. But perhaps the savviest explanation is also the simplest. The U.S. is spending close to $500 billion a year on defense, at home and abroad, yet Americans feel only slightly safer. Some Bush hard-liners share Rumsfeld's fear that the U.S. is going about it the wrong way. "This leak was no accident," said an official. "It was leaked because they want to provoke the whole discussion about how we fight terror going forward...
...itself this week not only in a willingness (okay, I was backed into a corner) to row crew, but also an inability to apply my brain and pen more pressing academic topics in the column, such as the ethics of laptop usage in class, questioning the value of study abroad programs, and activism on campus. It also takes me about five times as long to write a paper, but I digress...
...that I get to share my experiences with so many people around the world,” Melvoin says, phoning in from Chile. He says that before setting out, most Americans were impressed that he was packing his bags for Cambridge, but the folks he’s met abroad have a different reaction. “If I mentioned it to the majority of the people I’ve met over the past eight months, I’d get a blank stare. They are far more impressed if I say a few phrases in their native language...
...public that Western efforts to prevent Iran from mastering the fuel cycle have failed, the Iranian leadership may have actually given itself some new room to compromise. The regime reportedly wants a compromise that accepts that Iran's nuclear reactor fuel will be enriched in Russia or elsewhere abroad, but allows it to maintain, under international scrutiny, the small research facility that completed this week's experiment. The U.S. and Europe have flatly rejected that proposal, because they had hoped to deny Iran the means of attaining even the know-how to enrich uranium for fear that this would...
...morning after. All of the hoopla came with just a minuscule margin of victory in the Lower House, and the race for the vital control of the Senate in a virtual deadlock-awaiting the final six seats to be determined by votes to be counted of Italians living abroad (it appeared later Tuesday that with support of those outside of Italy the center-left had clinched the Senate by two votes). Prodi?s appearance "in piazza" was a media moment that the center-left hopes will clinch him the Prime Minister?s job, even as Berlusconi?s allies scurried...