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...have America's fortune in the Middle East sunk? So low that we're staking our hopes for the region on ... Saudi Arabia. In the past month, Saudi King Abdullah has emerged as the most energetic dealmaker in the Middle East, brokering a tentative power-sharing agreement between rival Palestinian factions and mediating between the pro-Western government in Beirut and representatives of Hizballah, who want to topple it. Riyadh is also suppressing the price of oil, in what many observers see as a bid to undermine Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by starving his government of cash. And the Saudis...
...event of flight cancellations. Neeleman's response: "If we have a hurricane and there are hundreds of flights canceled, then people just don't travel. But we always protect our customers, we don't leave people in a lurch. So, regardless of if we have a formal agreement or not, we protect them...
...What’s important to us is a good match,” Hill says. And academics, of course, are at the forefront of the selection process when Harvard begins talks for new exchange programs. “We’re about to sign an agreement with the university of Boconni,” Hill says. The Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Harvard’s latest exchange, boasts one of the best economics programs in the world, according to Hill.In addition to these programs, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies is working in conjunction with...
...drifting apart - and North Korea is one of the main causes. While Japan under new conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has favored maintaining a hard line against Pyongyang, the U.S. was seen by some here as backing down at the recent Six-Party Talks, which culminated in an agreement that will give North Korea up to 1 million tons in fuel aid in exchange for shutting down its nuclear program...
...Congress must also consider whether to ratify a free trade agreement signed between the Bush Administration and the Colombian government last year. Defense Minister Santos recently returned from a trip to Washington, London and Brussels where he presented Plan Colombia II. The the para-politica scandal, as it has come to be known, may still mean it will be a hard sell, said Santos, but the foreign minister's resignation "makes my job a bit easier...