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...Olympic Hotel is now offering 40% off rack rates, so standard rooms are down to $199. There are also three different executive suite packages available, for $299 per night: "Shoppers Delight" includes a $100 Visa gift card; "Savor Seattle" comes with a three-course dinner for two at The Georgian restaurant in the hotel; "Celebration" gets you truffles and a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne in your room. If you buy all three, you get a fourth package of your choice for $99. Deals are available through March 31, 2009. 411 University Street, Seattle...
Europe's Challenges In the wake of the Georgian weekend war this summer, and amid the usual bellicose speechifying by Russian leaders, finding common ground between Russia and Europe will not be easy. But it is important to make a start, because the risk of alienating Moscow is a real and dangerous one. And as Joe Joffe argues in the accompanying essay, when talking to Russia, Europe is stronger than its behavior would often suggest...
...however charismatic its new President may be, will be little or no help. Russia and Turkey are Europe's neighbors, not America's. Washington will always see relations with its former superpower rival differently from the way Europe does - as, indeed, was demonstrated in its reaction to the Georgian...
...official. Three weeks ago, the Pentagon began work on a new missile defense "Headquarters Command Center" at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, about 10 miles south of the Pentagon. The $38.5 million building will be home to 300 Missile Defense Agency workers. Its planned brick veneer will match the fort's Georgian Colonial Revival style. Once finished in late 2010, the brand new missile-defense headquarters will blend in with Fort Belvoir's pre-World War II buildings. It will seem like it has always been there...
...reports that Russia’s threat of gathering offensive firepower in Kaliningad is highly unrealistic, citing military analysts in Moscow who suggest that Russia’s Iskander missiles are currently all deployed on the Georgian border and that the production and installation of missiles in Kaliningrad would take considerable time. Medvedev’s declaration can only be understood as a symbolic challenge to Barack Obama. Polish President Lech Kaczynski didn’t make things any easier when he claimed last week that Obama hoped the shield project would continue and forced him to issue...