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...assault on a group of radical students at Islamabad's Red Mosque by the Pakistani army shattered any pretenses of a peace agreement, and Mehsud's vows of revenge for the incident only brought him greater fame. In December of that year, he was tapped by a Taliban council to consolidate the group's loosely affiliated factions in Pakistan. The same month, on Dec. 27, former Prime Minister Benazir was assassinated...
...Before I had even applied to Harvard, I brought my portfolio and talked to some students who told me about the VES department. They told me that I had to sit in on Nancy Mitchnick’s class before I left,” Escobedo says. “I did and I was blown away. Her passion and her dedication instantly struck me. I was about to go to RISD, but I remember that experience with Nancy...
...have the chance to form a stable government after the elections in March 2008. And not just a stable government, but one that will carry out the course that has brought results for all of the past eight years." - Vladimir Putin endorsing Medvedev's candidacy...
...clampdown on such havens. China, not a member of the OECD, was stalling because of its concern that such a list might include Macau and Hong Kong, which have both recently moved to implement OECD standards. The U.S. President took Sarkozy aside, then Chinese President Hu Jintao, and finally brought them together in a private meeting at the side of the room. "If he hadn't done that, we'd still be there," remarked a White House official after the communiqué had been safely published. (See pictures of Obama in Europe...
...what exactly is NATO's purpose? That question hangs like a cloud of existential angst over the Atlantic Alliance's 60th birthday celebration this weekend. The festivities, which will span the Franco-German border, are suffused with the symbolism of a Cold War that brought NATO into being but whose end left the Alliance with no clear mission or identity. Hence the title of this anniversary summit: "NATO in 2020: What Lies Ahead...