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...objections from Moscow. (While Washington insists the system's purpose is to guard against potential missile threats from North Korea and Iran, the Russians suspect it is the thin end of a wedge designed to neutralize their own nuclear missile deterrent.) But lately, even the Poles and Czechs have begun to ask more of Washington in return for their cooperation...
...Some of the HFPA's goofier inspirations have stuck, like the Miss Golden Globe designation, begun in 1963 in homage to the sweet young thing of the moment. The honoree usually comes from Hollywood royalty (Tippi Hedren's daughter Melanie was Miss G.G. in 1975, and 31 years later the slot went to Griffith's daughter Dakota Johnson). It's one more way of guaranteeing that one more proud parent, who just happens to be a movie star, will show...
...Kenya continues to boil with unrest, students at Harvard have begun to change summer plans and to collect donations for humanitarian relief. For others, the violence has hit closer to home. Kenyan student Kipyegon A. Kitur ’09 remembers the first day of the new year. That day 50 people were burned alive in a church in Eldoret as they fleed from a mob incensed over the results of the election two days earlier. Kitur, who was spending winter break on campus, called his brother in another Kenyan town. “He said people were screaming...
...track for now. From the 20 combat brigades that were in place at the height of the surge last summer, five will come out and not be replaced. "These improvements [in security in Iraq] are allowing some U.S. forces to return home - a return on success that has now begun," Bush said at the rally Saturday. Beyond that, Bush said, a decision on further troop withdrawals will rest with Petraeus...
Attending the sessions in Oklahoma was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, thought by many to be considering a possible presidential run as a third-party candidate. The Los Angeles Times reported that Bloomberg has begun investing in nationwide polling and voter analysis to explore what it would take to mount a third party candidacy. During the panel's meetings this week, Bloomberg dismissed such talk. "I'm not a candidate, number one. I am a former businessman and a mayor" - hardly a Shermanesque denial...