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...Still, he admits his situation is dire. "It's a tough fight. I don't enjoy being a leader of a country in a time of war." But rather than striking back on the battlefield, he says, the only way to convince Russia to leave is to "hit them where it hurts" in bank accounts in the West. As for the Russian army, he scoffs, "They are not capable of a new Cold War. They are badly dressed, badly equipped, and many of them are drunk. There are just a lot of them...
...Paulson says that unlike the situation with Bear Stearns, there was never a moment when the two firms appeared in imminent danger of failure. But he saw far more dire potential consequences than in the case of Bear. "Their securities move like water among all of the financial institutions," he says of Fannie and Freddie. If holders ranging from central banks in Asia to community banks in Iowa had lost confidence, the ensuing sell-off might have been catastrophic...
...have been a dead man walking for more than a year now, but leaving an enfeebled and unpopular Prime Minister in place may have suited most of his potential successors, each of whom who has used the intervening period to burnish his or her own claims. And despite his dire domestic political prospects, Olmert focused his energies on Israel's relations with its neighborhood. He has called time on his tenure at a moment when he is engaged in talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over the terms of a future peace agreement, as well as indirect negotiations with...
...into the atmosphere than has been seen for millions of years. Though carbon has its positive points, even in the air - it feeds plants, and without the greenhouse effect, we'd basically be living in a climate like Mars' - Roston makes clear in the book's powerful conclusion the dire fate that awaits the Earth if we can't kick our carbon habit. That won't be easy. "There's never been a purposeful transformation in our energy system," he says. "We went to coal because it was better than wood, and we went to oil because it was better...
...complicate relations. "One of the wonderful things about President Sarkozy's presidency has been that he's broken, he shattered, many of those stereotypes," Obama said of U.S. perceptions of Europeans who "don't want to get their hands dirty." Conversely, Obama noted, Europeans often defer to America in dire situations only to criticize their powerful ally once it has taken action. "I think for too long ... Europeans, I think, have seen Americans just as unilateral and militaristic and have tended to forget the extraordinary sacrifices that U.S. military but also U.S. taxpayers have made in helping to rebuild Europe...