Word: clouded
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...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...
...avoid bankruptcy last year, Le Pen's National Front party sold its headquarters in the tony Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud to Chinese buyers. Until this week's brouhaha, Le Pen had been focused on making way as leader for his daughter Marine. Other would-be successors, who believe the younger Le Pen is too moderate, have decried the plan. Now the controversy in Strasbourg has allowed Le Pen to re-assume center stage...
...Media Cloud plans to make much of its data available to the public and to release the code that runs the content database so that the Web site can serve as a research platform for scholars studying the subject matter, said Hal M. Roberts, the technical architect of the Web site and self-identified “geek in residence” at the Berkman Center...
...Media Cloud will allow researchers to test some of those hypotheses, Zuckerman said. Past efforts to study online news dissemination have focused on analyzing how Web sites link to one another...
...think it diminishes the credibility of all players. I think it definitely puts a cloud over everything. For the guys that haven't done anything and don't need to use anything, it's tough because we have to answer those questions and there is that cloud that does hang over us. I've always been that guy who never used steroids, never believed in it. It just felt like that's not me going out there and playing the game...