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Peacekeeping is one of them. "The Americans," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London, "hate peacekeeping, and they're not very good at it." Many European armed forces, by contrast, are now structured with peacekeeping as their primary mission. In Bosnia, says Grant, American forces will not walk down a street unprotected, while British and French soldiers soak up information in cafes. Unsurprisingly, it is Europeans who shoulder the burden of keeping the peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Kabul. But suggest to European policymakers that their primary military role should be mopping up after...
...until midnight and then puts in another day's work until dawn prayers. Though a devout Muslim, if he's a zealot about anything it's TV news: his office has a bank of 33 television sets so he can monitor all the available satellite channels at once. In contrast to more remote royals, Abdullah has become a populist prince, touring the country and even munching burgers in fast-food joints...
...which hang side by side in the Gund Gallery, show Monet’s experimentation with both traditional and nontraditional still life. “Still Life with Melon” features the heavy round shapes of the melon, peaches, plates and grapes, balanced with traditional bourgeois taste. In contrast, “The Tea Set” is evidence of Japanese influence on the Impressionist movement: a tea tray rests diagonally on the floor, as if the artist happened upon it accidentally. The painting is beautifully understated and fragile...
...listen to “California,” the album’s opening road anthem, replete with shimmering guitars and a fist-waving chorus, and you get the sense the band is just out to have some fun and score some chicks. In contrast to the Strokes edgy “Hard To Explain,” Alex Greenwald’s surfer-dude wail sounds most comfortable singing, “I’ll try for one ray of sunlight to hold in my hand/ Maybe we can be happy again.” There...
...nation aspiring to modern Muslim statehood, yet held back by illiteracy, poverty and mismanagement. In election after election, Pakistanis reject religion as a function of government; indeed, in the four most recent general elections, the combined religious parties have never exceeded 5 percent of the votes cast. In contrast, over this time a woman has twice been elected to lead this country of 140 million. The first time this occurred was also the first time in history that a woman had led a Muslim nation...