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There are lots of ways to win a football match, and the first round of Euro2008 offered the full menu. Portugal won through individual brilliance. Germany orchestrated a symphony of precision passing. Sweden displayed absolute determination against a Greece team equally determined to not let them play. Croatia exhibited the black art of protecting an early lead to its exhausting end while the Czech Republic gave testimony to that sporting proverb that sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. Spain's finishing was nothing less than exquisite, raising expectations yet again that this will be their year...
...favorite to create another masterpiece in Euro 2008, which is being hosted this year - with restrained enthusiasm - by Austria and Switzerland. The Italians, of course, are not a sure thing. They will be challenged by France - whom they defeated in the World Cup final - the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Croatia ... in other words, the usual suspects. (Four years ago, Greece miraculously beat stratospheric odds to win, a performance unlikely to be repeated.) And as is also now usual, the tournament will be followed on televisions not just in Europe, but everywhere from Kunming, China to - well, to Kearney, N.J., actually...
...Still, despite the fondness for Borat among the country's elite, the movie can't be found among the action movies and thrillers that dominate Kazakhstan's DVD stores. Kaharman Jazin, director of development for the Special Economic Zone in Astana, says he recently returned home from Croatia with numerous DVD copies for friends. Jazin says "the Borat factor" aids his efforts in coaxing foreign investors to plow billions into new development projects - "Thanks to Borat," he says, "the whole world knows about Kazakhstan." And Astana tour guide Gulmira Begimbetova reports seeing a notable spike in foreign vsitors since...
...That is a political line with a very bloody history. Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic and his supporters used it to foment Yugoslavia's wars of dissolution in the early 1990s, when they stirred up the defiance of Serb enclaves against independence for Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These sentiments were invoked again in 1999, when Milosevic's security forces tried to push ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo. All these efforts ended in war and tragedy, not least for Serbs. Yet the failure of extreme nationalism to improve the lot of Serbs doesn't appear to have blunted its appeal...
...historical rivalry with Russia and its perpetuation of unnecessary U.S. involvement in Europe.The controversy surrounding membership proposals made at the NATO summit in Bucharest earlier this month is recent evidence of the current problems. It offered “membership action plans” to Albania and Croatia but declined Ukraine and Georgia’s requests for similar plans. Many NATO member states saw the prospect of bringing these former Soviet states into the organization as dangerous because of the likelihood that their admission would anger Russia. Instances like these illustrate the political tensions that NATO?...