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...much of the past few months obsessing over how Washington views it. Obama has visited Europe six times since taking office, and made just one trip to China. But the U.S. President's decision to skip the Spain summit, and his failure to attend the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, has had Europe acting like a jilted lover. French press reported that Sarkozy was forced to console an upset Merkel ahead of the Wall ceremony by painting Obama as a distant being whose presence would not be missed. "If you make a really big effort...
...members of the Japanese press and employees sporting Toyota buttons thronged the hallways outside. Yet the spectacle failed to answer a key question: whether Toyota has pinpointed the problems that caused it to recall more than 8 million cars, including over 6 million in the U.S., since last fall...
BENJAMIN JEALOUS, president and CEO of the NAACP, defending the organization's bestowal of an Image Award on former White House green czar Van Jones, despite his resignation last fall over rumors about his alleged radical past...
...most important thing in the olympics is not to win but to take part." So goes the Olympic creed. It's a romantic ideal, one that can be hard to follow if you're an athlete who has endured years of intense training only to subsequently fall short in front of millions. Take Evgeni Plushenko. Following his silver-medal performance in men's figure skating, the Russian repeatedly insulted his first-place opponent, America's Evan Lysacek, and all but climbed atop the gold-medal podium ... Wait, he did that too. But Plushenko is hardly the first Olympic sore loser...
...practice rooms. Unlike some Houses such as Winthrop and Cabot, the underground tunnels connect all the entryways, meaning that you never have to go outside when Cambridge weather acts up (which, as you must know by now, it likes to do often). For the more temperate days in the fall and spring, the beautiful, open courtyard facing the river is a popular spot to work or relax...