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...particular. At home millions of Russians are souring on the U.S. A U.S. Information Agency poll found that 75% of Russians believe the U.S. is "using Russia's current weakness to reduce it to a second-rate power." The domestic backlash may mean the U.S. is on the brink of losing its once close relationship with the Russian leadership...
...these good times in the U.S., it's often difficult to appreciate the economic problems plaguing our trading partners. "About a third of the world, especially in Asia and Latin America, is in recession or teetering on its brink," says Baumohl. The effect is to lessen worldwide demand for a whole host of goods, which accelerates the need to find new markets and increase exports to new partners. This tension is exacerbating frictions between trading partners where barriers stand in the way. "Many in the U.S. suspect that on the beef issue, for example, the Europeans are merely trying...
...percentage point counts. On Feb. 22, the Commerce Department badgered Russia into "voluntarily" cutting its steel imports by 70 percent, leading even Commerce Secretary William M. Daley to recognize that "There is a legitimate concern about taking Russia to its knees." Blocking imports from a country already on the brink of financial and political disaster simply can't be a good idea. The result is a classic example of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. The IMF is currently loaning Russia billions of taxpayer dollars, but how much of that money could be saved...
...Harvard students studying government could attend lectures by professors with names like Kissinger and Moynihan. Today, though the department as a whole is considered the best in the country, the branch devoted to the study of American politics sits, at least according to one former member, on the brink of crisis...
Only last May, the subcontinent's bitterest adversaries seemed poised on the brink of catastrophe as both detonated atomic devices and became the latest and most aggressive members of the nuclear club. "Even a month ago, no one could have foreseen such spectacular progress," says McAllister. For months, however, the United States has been quietly pressing the two countries to open up to each other a bit, and that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says...