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"These individuals bring tremendous expertise and experience to the critical work of this commission," Obama is quoted in a Washington press release. "I am grateful they have agreed to serve as we work to determine the causes of this catastrophe and implement the safety and environmental protections we need to...
Another small European country—Greece—also found itself on the brink of disaster. We held that it would be wrong for the people of France and Germany, two of the only European nations with fiscal houses in comparative order, to devote their own tax dollars to...
“The disaster of the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy is what it does every single day in the heart of a soldier—it tells them that they should be ashamed,” Choi...
Anatoly Dobrynin, who died April 6 at 90, was not your average diplomat. As the current U.N. Security Council so plainly put it in a statement, "He played a major role in saving the world from a nuclear disaster." Dobrynin, who worked with six American Presidents as the Soviet ambassador...
A new country born into that environment, which, say, did not have clearly defined borders, or had weak institutions, or was split internally, could spell disaster. "It could recreate the conditions for civil war," says Gressly. Major General Scott Gration, U.S. special envoy to Sudan, describes his task as ensuring...