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Leading Poland to democracy brought Lech Walesa a Nobel Peace Prize and international acclaim, but he admits to a few regrets. One is that he was so busy throughout the 1980s and '90s that he "did not have the time to follow developments in technology closely." But he is catching...
...continue to have - the ability to launch nuclear strikes. After the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. in 2001, Musharraf aligned himself with President Bush, who has consistently called the Pakistani leader one of America's most important allies in the war against terrorism. For years, he had enjoyed acclaim for his reputation for incorruptibility as well as for getting the U.S. to lift the economic sanctions put in place after Pakistan tested its first nuclear bomb...
...example, headlined "Sarkozy Backs Bush on Iran" - a notion that sounds good now, but which will become untenable if the White House seriously proposes military strikes that Sarkozy has previously termed "catastrophic." The New York Times underlined a conclusion that leaves many in France dumb-founded: Sarkozy's Congressional acclaim demonstrated, "France was forgiven for opposing the American-led war in Iraq...
Back in the fall of 2003, “Arrested Development” first aired on American TV to critical acclaim. The witty comedy centered on a dysfunctional family’s struggles after its patriarch is imprisoned for murky deals with Saddam Hussein. Around the same time, audiences worldwide were introduced to a more extended family: one of popular, leftist leaders elected into office all around Latin America. Last Sunday, that family influence was maintained in Argentina for at least another four years, as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the wife of President Néstor C. Kirchner...
...sake of his new career I, for one, hope Gore doesn’t run for President. Though he deserves the power and acclaim, it’s just not where his project belongs. He’s done more good outside D.C. than he could ever do within the suffocating framework of politics...