Word: doorstep
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...NATO is about collective security and collective defense. To do that, we need a huge transformation agenda. Afghanistan is logistically very complicated and far away from home. But NATO has made a commitment. Why? Because if we do not fight threats far away from home, they land on our doorstep. We are in Afghanistan to prevent that country from becoming a safe haven for terrorists again. We used to defend our borders; now we have to project stability. That's what we're doing in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, in Bosnia. NATO has neither the means nor the ambition...
...Terrorism at Europe's Doorstep I was appalled by the terrorist attacks in Istanbul [Dec. 1]. What made them even more dismaying was that when they occurred, Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were trying to justify their countries' unprovoked attack on Iraq. There is no doubt that terrorist activity has escalated since the invasion of Iraq, but these two world leaders will not admit that their acts have been the reason for it. Iraq was not a threat to the U.S. or Britain, yet here are two leaders still trying to excuse their mistakes in the hopes that...
...haul of nearly $22,000 per gaming table compared with just $2,200 in Vegas. And thanks to the recent removal of certain internal travel restrictions, some 150 million mainlanders can now head to Macau without a tour guide as chaperone. "We're extraordinarily fortunate to be on the doorstep of China," says Bill Weidner, president of Las Vegas Sands, which opened the Sands Macao...
...haul of nearly $22,000 per gaming table compared with just $2,200 in Vegas. And thanks to the recent removal of certain internal travel restrictions, some 150 million mainlanders can now head to Macau without a tour guide as chaperone. "We're extraordinarily fortunate to be on the doorstep of China," says Bill Weidner, president of Las Vegas Sands, which opened the Sands Macao in May. Despite the influx of big spenders, Macau is still a far cry from America's glamorous Sin City. For the past four decades, the government endorsed the casino monopoly run by local tycoon...
Visitors to the Taj Mahal all confront the same eternal mystery: How could the people who fashioned the world's most serene monument to love also build on its doorstep one of the ugliest, filthiest and most cacophonous cities in existence? If the heartbroken Shah Jahan's mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal is everything India should be--spiritual, awesome, peaceful--Agra, with its choking traffic, litter-strewed dirt roads and throngs of grotesque beggars is everything it unfortunately still is. "This not what I expected," says Camilla, 22, a psychology student visiting from Sweden. "Not at all. I mean...