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...considers a threat to Russia, NATO failed to ratify the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) - a key European arms control treaty that has been regulating the deployment of troops and the monitoring of weapons systems on the continent since 1990. Still, the Kennebunkport meeting was full of good cheer, great fishing and conciliatory hints that these newly risen U.S.-Russian tensions would soon ease...
...this good cheer, it's worth keeping a sense of proportion. The World Bank says just 3% of global foreign direct investment flowed to sub-Saharan Africa in 2005. And most of the money has gone to only a handful of resource-rich countries like South Africa, Nigeria and Angola. Meanwhile, much of the continent remains desperately underdeveloped: only 22% of African households have access to electricity. That leaves plenty of opportunity for businesses to profit as the continent attempts to catch up. In recent years, for example, the number of mobile-phone subscribers in Africa has soared by over...
...where a decade of intense immigration has turned a nearly all-white town into a place in which 72% of the prekindergarten class is Hispanic. "If I got up and said I'm gonna run each and every Mexican out of town on a donkey, the voters here would cheer me on," says Mayor Bob Walters. "But I'm not going to say that. It's not our job to deport them all, and it's not the right thing...
They bring us together to cheer, boo, laugh, and grimace...
...four years writing Crimson Sports, I have enjoyed the privilege of watching and writing about some of the most memorable moments in Harvard sports history—moments that have made us cheer, boo, laugh, and grimace...