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...Eastern Europe now fears the narrow instinct of individual governments will be to look to their own backyards first, only thinking of the European dimension as an afterthought. Without any clear direction, there is also a risk that instability in the east could infect everyone else and drag down the euro. Last week, Moody's Investor Services, a credit-rating agency, warned of default risks for banks in six western European states that are overextended in the east. If that occurs, it could jeopardize one of the E.U.'s finest achievements, the embrace and revival of Eastern Europe...
...part, Kagan calls her student body “extraordinary” and a “privilege to teach.” Her willingness to hear student views contributes to what has been described as a shift in institutional culture to treat students as more than an afterthought at the august school.“I very much wanted to instill an attitude that the reason we were doing this was the students, the measure of our success was the student experience,” Kagan says.BEIRUT ON THE CHARLESThe absence of community cohesion among the student body during...
...April. (Obama already met with Mexican President Felipe Calderón earlier this week and has said he will make Canada the destination of his first foreign visit as President.) Improving relations with the western hemisphere - as an early item on his diplomatic agenda and not as an afterthought, as most U.S. Presidents approach it - could turn out to be a relatively easy way to prime the pump for better relations with the rest of the world. "Compared with the challenges he faces elsewhere, Latin America's are more manageable," says Michael Shifter, vice president of the InterAmerican Dialogue...
...doesn't give Saab a visa while Obama is President, a sufficient number of Latin Americans are likely to see enough change in gringo policy to soften their resentment toward the U.S. And if Obama is smart, he'll see that as a good start instead of an afterthought...
...force member Harry Mattison, who has been critical of Harvard’s plans in the past. “Every time you talked about your plans and said ‘Oh, maybe there will be some community there too,’ it is sort of an afterthought...