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...quietly significant move, the post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs may go to a diplomat, David Welch, rather than to a neocon (although it is expected that the ever present Elliot Abrams will have a hand in this area from his perch at the National Security Council). The neoconservative lockout at State has led to speculation that the U.N. post might be thrown to them as a sop. The rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence...
Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) plays the matriarch of a Middle Eastern family of terrorists on the new season...
...when almost every potentially rich economy apart from the U.S. lay amid the rubble of war, the U.S. accounted for about 50% of world economic output, and U.S. wages were much higher than those elsewhere. But other nations caught up--first Western Europe, then Japan, then Southeast Asia, then Eastern Europe, now India and China. The U.S. share of the world economy is now only about 22%, and wages elsewhere are closer to those of Americans. Why anyone should think this process is a source of net human unhappiness beats me, but then--may as well admit...
...objective view on the matter, I want to point out that western Ukraine was never in favor of separatism as the article implies. It was, rather, a cultural separation as the western Ukraine was formerly under Austro-Hungarian and then Polish rule, as opposed to central, southern and eastern Ukraine, which were Russian. When Ihor Derzhko, deputy chair of the regional legislature in Lviv, was quoted, saying "the orange revolution has fused us with the rest of the country," he meant that the rest of the country - except maybe for eastern Donbassthe, birthplace and stronghold of Yushchenko's rival Victor...
...seems likely to scupper the entire NHL season. But the NHL's loss is Europe's gain. Rather than sit out the dispute in North America, more than 300 NHL players have signed up with European teams and dozens more are expected. The new arrivals - many of them from Eastern Europe to begin with - have reinvigorated a European game that's been losing popularity to soccer. Hockey audiences have increased by 10-15% across Europe's top seven leagues, as fans turn out to see players they'd previously known only from satellite television. "The [Czech] league has become...