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...nerd in his basement. They were alike though in being chatty brainiac-megalomaniacs whose compulsion to explain exactly how they were going to kill Bond (and take over the world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless. Issuing dreadful warnings, plotting mass destruction from remote redoubts and sending their thugs to do the dirty work, the Scaramangas and Ernst Stavro Blofelds of Bond...
...shouts, “It’s only a projection!” In their enclave in the Trustman Lecture Hall at the IOP, the outnumbered Republicans prepare for a night of watching election results in hostile territory. They sit down with their laptops, McCain-Palin buttons, and cold pizza, hoping for a major upset. The sounds of cheering Obama fans at the Election Night Party in the adjacent JFK Jr. Forum are only somewhat muted. But the prospects of an upset grow dimmer as the projection screen in front of the room reports one blue state after another...
...which carries 350 sailors and is responsible for ferrying 700 Marines and their gear to global hot spots. And the ship's sad plight represents in miniature all that is wrong with the way the Pentagon buys its weapons. The pattern of haste and waste accelerated in the Cold War's wake and simply exploded following 9/11. It highlights the challenge facing President-elect Barack Obama as he contemplates retooling an Industrial Age military - primed for state-on-state warfare - into the more agile force better suited for 21st century conflicts of the type now being waged in Afghanistan...
...news about the secret U.S. raids into Syria and the possibility of a Syrian nuclear weapons program paint a darker picture of just how deep hostility may have run between the U.S. and Syria. "This was a real cold war," says Andrew J. Tabler, former editor of Syria Today, an English-language magazine in Damascus. "Improving U.S.-Syrian relations could be a lot harder than we thought...
...Congress when he didn't like what he was hearing from the Clinton Administration. Conversely, an expectation that the U.S. is looking to ease its security burdens in the wider region may prompt Israeli leaders to renew peace efforts, as they did in the period that saw the Cold War end and the U.S. seek broad Arab support for the Gulf...