Word: foreigners
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Haber, who said he entered the contest on an impulse, has emerged from over 4,800 entrants to outlast six other finalists — including a Nobel laureate in physics, an assistant secretary of commerce in the Bush administration, and a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations...
...goal made the rookie stand out—something to which Smith is already accustomed. Compared to other Harvard freshmen, at 6’6, he’s taller; at 20 years of age, he’s older; and as an Englishman, he’s more foreign. But on Sunday, Smith stood out in another way as well. Unlike most of the 1,600 other members of his class, he was an athletic hero...
...Afghans in the Taliban. While poverty and corruption at the local level certainly fuel the resentment on which the Taliban capitalizes, it is not a protest movement against bad governance as much an insurgency rooted in Islamic and nationalist identities that challenges a political order installed and defended by foreign armies...
...TOKYO) - Japan's foreign minister said Monday that Tokyo should honor its agreement to find a new location for a major U.S. Marine base, but he and the prime minister said they were still seeking options on where it should...
...would be extremely difficult to scrap the U.S. military realignment agreement that has been already reached," Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said after a two-day trip to Okinawa, adding the top priority is to move the base out of its current location in a crowded city on the southern island...