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...Directorate), Lavrov had to explain that the button actually said overload. It caused some awkward laughter. "We won't let you do that to us," Clinton joked, and they went ahead and pressed the button anyway. "So that's how things have turned out," says Dmitri Rogozin, Russia's envoy to NATO. "They pressed the wrong button, and over time the relationship was overloaded. So far the right button still hasn't been pressed." (See pictures of Clinton in Russia...
...leaders of Israel and Palestine have a common objective in the "proximity talks" the Obama Administration is launching this week. Unfortunately, that shared goal is not to reach a final agreement on a two-state solution to their conflict - both sides know better than to expect that U.S. special envoy Senator George Mitchell's shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah will be able to bridge the chasm between their demands. Instead, the mutual goal in the latest round of talks is to avoid being blamed for their failure...
...idea behind cash-for-work will be applied to broader efforts like earthquake-resistant building construction and more democratic community organization - especially as half a million Haitians relocate outside Port-au-Prince in the coming months. Perhaps its biggest cheerleader is former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the special U.N. envoy to Haiti, who in the 1990s championed "workfare" as a key to welfare reform. More hands-on participation in the recovery, Clinton argued recently, will give Haitians "the opportunity to, in effect, re-imagine the country." (The U.N. is also trying cash-for-work projects in developing countries like Brazil...
...Kerry and Clinton President Barack Obama learned his lesson on Kashmir early. When he suggested in an October 2008 interview with TIME's Joe Klein while still running for office that the U.S. might appoint a special envoy to Kashmir, the outrage from India came thick and fast. India has no interest in getting a third country involved in what it believes is purely a bilateral issue. Don't look for Obama to utter "Kashmir" again anytime soon. Still, the U.S. is believed to be a key player behind the scenes in pushing for the talks, and New Delhi will...
...while U.S.-Pakistan relations are better now, they are still fraught. As U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke, a veteran of the Balkans and other bruising diplomatic acts, remarked wearily on Feb. 18, during his seventh swing through Islamabad, "This is the most complicated relation with an ally that I've ever experienced. I don't want to mislead you; it's still fragile...