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However the disputed election finally plays out, it has undermined the Bush Administration's cozy relations with Putin, at least behind the scenes. In his first term, George W. Bush was willing to give Putin a free hand in what Russia calls the near abroad, the states that spun off from the broken Soviet Union. At the same time, Bush has made encouraging democracy around the world a central pillar of his presidency. In Ukraine those two policies clash mightily. Washington spent much of Ukraine's bitterly fought presidential campaign studiously avoiding confrontation with Putin and stuck to that line...
...that has already sent troops into Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran's immediate neighbors to the east and west. In Tehran defiance is certainly back in the air now that conservatives have wrested control of the 290-seat Majlis from reformers in elections that were widely condemned at home and abroad as rigged. Supporters of the ruling mullahs seem poised to take back the presidency next spring. The up-and-coming pragmatic conservatives, who negotiated the nuclear deal and agree with reformers that Iran should cooperate with the outside world, have been accused of treachery by hard-liners, who control militant...
...estranged, more famous family members, including his father John and his daughter Drew Barrymore; of undisclosed causes; in Los Angeles. He started acting at 17, landing roles in westerns like The Sundowners and High Lonesome, and appearing in a string of low-budget films in the U.S. and abroad. But he abused drugs and alcohol, frequently got into fights and was jailed several times for drunkenness and domestic violence. By the late 1960s his career had fizzled, and he spent his later years largely as a recluse...
...first generation Indian immigrants unsure of their place in American culture, art-making in this liberated manner provided me with powerful tools for self-discovery. I made experimental videos on interracial adoption, compared the Mogul miniature tradition with Rothko and was compelled to carry my insights abroad to spend a summer in India promoting local art forms...
Undergraduates from abroad need to deal with a different education system, language barriers and being far away from home...