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...month later, literally on the same day that the U.S., Russia and others were negotiating with Iran in Vienna, Vice President Joe Biden was in Warsaw confirming plans to deploy Patriot ground-to-air missiles in Poland, and a U.S. official said in Tbilisi that "the process of Georgia's deeper integration into NATO is very important." No statement was likely to trouble Russia more...
...Czech Republic and Poland that was recently scrapped by the Obama administration. But it has a much more powerful hand in non-NATO member countries, where the alliance is less willing to intervene directly. It has been suggested that last year’s war between Russia and Georgia, which resulted in Russia’s recognition of the independence of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, was a retaliation against U.S. support of Ukraine and Georgia’s NATO membership bids. And Russian President Dmitri Medvedev apparently has no qualms about stating his displeasure about Ukraine?...
Regarded as one of the fastest high schoolers in Georgia in 2006, Mitchell exceled at track and soccer at Campbell High School in Smyrna before being recruited heavily to many Division I Schools. Contemplating his future maturely, he chose to head north...
...first inklings of this realization came to me during my pre-frosh weekend. “Where are you from?” asked a Harvard student, to which I replied, “Georgia.” Just plain, unexotic Georgia, one of the 50 states of the same country in which Harvard is a part. Then, for the first time in my life, my home state was confused for a former Communist satellite, and I had to clarify: No, I was referring to the Southern state. For the past four years, this clarification has inevitably been followed...
...patient smile, I find it a bit frustrating that brilliant Harvard students can be so ignorant about the region. How is it that students who can spew out detailed histories of Shanghai or Cairo can look at me confusedly when I point out that the 1996 Olympics were in Georgia well within our lifetimes...