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...Laden was, even though he had been in the country since 2002. Press accounts either emphasized the embarrassment of a Secretary of State's getting pummeled or fixed on Clinton's undiplomatic bluntness. But they missed the point: her candor, her willingness to listen to and acknowledge criticism, had begun to undermine the prevailing Pakistani image of the U.S. as arrogant and bossy, more interested in having the Pakistani military fight its war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban than in having a true strategic partnership. The contrast was especially sharp after George W. Bush's eight years of unqualified...
...protect the top of the head and neck. Today's goalie sports a mask that includes protection for the throat and is fashioned often from carbon fiber or Kevlar for added protection against flying pucks. The design has even crossed sports: in the past decade many baseball catchers have begun sporting hockey-style masks behind the plate...
...comes the fun part for E.U. watchers and anyone interested in political intrigue: Who will get the top jobs in Brussels now that the big reform treaty is in place? Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Prime Minister of Sweden, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, has already begun a round of telephone calls to draw up a shortlist of candidates for the new E.U. president and foreign policy chief positions. An emergency summit could be held as early as next week to decide. (See ten things to do in Sweden...
Once a body of water becomes infested with jellyfish, it's not so easy to engineer a recovery. The Black Sea has begun to recuperate, but only after a convergence of several unlikely occurrences: many of the region's fisheries shut down when their stocks fell, the breakup of the Soviet Union sharply cut the amount of fertilizer in the sea, and another alien jellyfish, the Beroe ovata, which preys on the Mnemiopsis, not fish, was accidentally introduced to the water. "It's taken three separate events," Richardson says. "The point is you can't just stop overfishing and expect...
...mainly by including a provision allowing individual states to opt out. His sales pitch is three-pronged. First, he says, studies have shown that government competition is the most effective means of keeping down costs. Second, polls show that most Americans want a public option; conveniently some have even begun surfacing in states like Nevada and Arkansas (Reid and Lincoln are two of the most endangered incumbents) showing surprisingly strong support. And third, Schumer has co-opted the language of state-rights, small-government Republicans. "I've never seen an issue where every Democrat really wants us to succeed, from...