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...then there are the unsettling vignettes that have further tested the already strained relationship in recent years, such as when the late French Ambassador to the U.K. Daniel Bernard referred to Israel as that “shitty little country,” when eyebrows were raised in the French political establishment over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s part-Jewish heritage, and when, as recently as 2007, more than 7,000 French Jews requested asylum in the United States to escape the violent anti-Semitism they encountered in their home country...
...Daniel Ellsberg '52, the government insider who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971 and exposed the knowledge that top officials had believed early on that the Vietnam War could not be won, had mixed feelings about McNamara's career...
...bullfighting arena on slippery cobblestones. Observers say foreigners - especially, for some reason, Americans - are most likely to be injured. "Americans come here with the image of The Sun Also Rises and just don't realize how dangerous it is and how easy it is to trip up," Daniel Ross, an American vice consul in Spain, told the New York Times after Tassio's accident...
...Some think the E.U. has to show some teeth to maintain its credibility. "The E.U. needs to show that its position is associated with the U.S., with its implicit threat of coercive action," says Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Noting that Iran's economy is struggling - oil is now below $68 a barrel and the recent turmoil will further deter foreign investment - Korski says the government has a long-term interest in repairing its relationship with the E.U. "Iran may rant and rage, but that doesn't mean the E.U. is being kicked...
...that he is ready for anything Venezuela - or anyone else - can throw at him. With neither side showing signs of compromise, the risk of a violent clash rises - a prospect that worries many in Tegucigalpa. "All this mess could make the economic problems even worse," says shop owner Daniel Joya, 42. "If things fall apart, I will have to leave this country...