Word: diplomat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fiercely idealistic German. The two men meet for the first time as fire-breathing anarchists in a counterculture commune in Berlin in the 1960s and, improbably, become fast friends. The book's rhythm is that of their chance meetings. Over the years, Ted drifts into life as a minor diplomat, and a decade later, he re-encounters Sasha at an official reception. Now an East German functionary, Sasha proposes an intelligence operationsmuggling state secrets to the West under cover of Ted's menial diplomatic duties. It's a classic Le Carre caper--fans will recognize it as a variation...
...Pakistan. In Pakistan, the ?lite supports Musharraf's moves, but it's a harder sell with militants, lower-ranking military officers and ordinary Kashmiris. "You've got to remember that two or three generations of Pakistanis have been taught that Kashmir is theirs by right," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "That's going to be difficult to overcome...
...onetime diplomat seems to lack the diplomatic gene. Wolfowitz was seen as clumsy and heavy-handed after the release on a U.S. government website of his memo barring nations that didn't participate in the invasion from winning U.S. contracts to rebuild Iraq--at the same time the U.S. was trying to persuade those nations to forgive Iraq's debt. Says a Pentagon official: "We ended up looking petty and petulant...
...tact, timing and logic, the memo is a disaster. It was released just as the Bush Administration was launching an international effort to restructure Iraq's debt, much of it held by the excluded nations. Its reasoning is sophomoric and its language, in the words of one diplomat, a sort of "diseased English." Even on its own terms, the memo will not accomplish what it sets out to do, since companies from disfavored nations will still be able to work in Iraq, just not as prime contractors. But that benefit will not quiet the diplomatic...
...billion. Industrial production continues to fall. Unemployment is at 35%. Serbs have tried and failed three times to elect a President (not enough people bothered to turn out) while the current coalition government's ceaseless infighting has "destroyed people's faith in the reform process," says one senior diplomat. All this is proving fertile ground for Tomislav Nikolic, the grim-faced Serbian Radical Party campaigner who is standing in for Vojislav Seselj while the boss prepares his defense. A former cemetery manager, Nikolic is traveling the country with a list of fiery complaints about Serbia's oppressors, from "soulless journalists...