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...course, Tony is not so flush that he can't walk into an eyeglass store owned by a civilian connected to his business, impose on him for a huge favor, then pick out a pair of Armani shades and say, "You know what? I left my wallet in the car." For Tony, the money is not the point. The point is not having...
...destroys, he always believes himself more sinned against than sinning. He has toddled through the series like an overindulged two-year-old, protected from the consequences of his actions by perverse fate, and protected from their moral consequences by his power of rationalization. After he shafts a helpless civilian in a business deal by making a greedy and unnecessary demand, he gets righteously angry when the man squeaks that he's being unfair. "Talk to the Katrina victims about fair!" he yells...
...Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed to an historic nuclear deal, negotiators have been working to finalize the arrangement. The big idea was that India, which has been a pariah in the world community ever since it announced its oxymoronic "peaceful nuclear explosion" in 1974, would agree to put its civilian nuclear power facilities under international inspection in exchange for being able to buy nuclear technology from the United States. The administration argued that the deal would bring India into some kind of international compliance, even if it had failed to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Critics said that India...
...career diplomat who has held senior spots in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, did much of the heavy lifting, traveling to India five times. But working out the agreement proved difficult. Of India?s 22 nuclear reactors, for instance, India originally only wanted to have 4 designated as civilian and covered by international inspection, according to a senior U.S. official. Eventually that number got up to 14. The rest are designated as military and not subject to any kind of inspection. Last week, Burns cut off negotiations and went back to the United States over the issue of whether...
...security forces were put on "double red alert" at the presidential palace, at army bases and on the streets of Manila. Earlier that morning, the army had detained Brigadier-General Danilo Lim, commander of the military's ?lite Scout Rangers, for allegedly planning to lead soldiers in a military-civilian coup against the government. Presidential Chief of Staff Michael Defensor told reporters that up to 10 military and civilian figures were being sought in connection with the plot, while administration sources say the military and police have compiled two separate lists of people to be arrested, with some 200 civilians...