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...Turkish-Armenian weekly you worked so hard to launch and sustain. I cannot take my eyes off the soles of your shoes. Worn out and tired, your shoes are a mute response to all those ultranationalists who accused you of being in the pay of the Armenian diaspora to disrupt the status quo in Turkey...
...campaign. Schmidt taught the cadre--some of whom are now in charge of large staffs at the '08 campaigns--that the news cycle ends with the 11:35 p.m. comedy shows and starts when the Associated Press sends out fresh stories shortly after midnight. Everyone in the Bush-Cheney diaspora has been schooled in relentlessness and in the power of Matt Drudge's website. Schmidt's precepts: Run a disciplined, efficient operation that looks for small mistakes by the opposition that can be translated into big moments. Just ask John "I Voted for It Before I Voted Against It" Kerry...
...Administration has been quietly nurturing individuals and parties opposed to the Syrian government in an effort to undermine the regime of President Bashar Assad. Parts of the scheme are outlined in a classified, two-page document that says that the U.S. already is "supporting regular meetings of internal and diaspora Syrian activists" in Europe. The document bluntly expresses the hope that "these meetings will facilitate a more coherent strategy and plan of actions for all anti-Assad activists...
...religion professor Diana L. Eck, master of Lowell House, said over the phone last night. She added that she might alter one of her Core courses, Foreign Cultures 12, “Sources of Indian Civilization,” to include a focus on the impact of the Indian diaspora on American life. Supporters of the proposed curriculum are insisting that the report not be judged by any superficial similarities to the existing framework. Rather, they say, the new proposal presents a guiding philosophy far removed from its forebear. “This is emphatically NOT the Core...
...bound to keep coming to Londongrad. Although the Litvinenko death has created a chill among government critics in Russia, London's go-go exiles don't seem too worried. Zograb Nalbandian, London correspondent for the Russian newspaper Trud, says he has spoken to a dozen members of the Russian diaspora. "No one thinks the regime is going to run after them here." That may be true. But it still might be wise for some of London's Russians to watch their sushi...