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...Europe's great and good, this will not be easy. Europeans love thinking about America, part in longing, part in envy, part in disdain. You could spend a nice year trotting from Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire to Salzburg, from the Italian lakes to German castles, doing nothing but ponder in earnest detail the state of the Atlantic alliance. It's a monumental waste of time. Nearly six years after those passionate disagreements on the invasion of Iraq, U.S.-Europe relations are just fine, with a clutch of Atlanticists heading the governments of Britain, France and Germany - and leading the European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Road Ahead | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...other side, Russia remains true to the quip of former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt about the Soviet Union: "An Upper Volta with nukes." OK, today it is not just rockets. The Kremlin's power also flows (more effectively, in fact) from those pipelines that have hooked Europe on Russian oil and gas. But for all of its fabulous riches in the ground, 
 Russia remains a kind of Third World country, an extraction economy whose welfare and clout fluctuate with the price of oil. Today, oil fetches less than one-half of what it did when Russia, flush with cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russia Problem | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...France Rwandan Assassination Arrest A week after German police arrested her, Rose Kabuye, chief protocol officer to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was extradited to France under a warrant claiming she was complicit in the downing of a plane that killed Rwanda's then President and two French pilots. The attack helped spark the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which some 800,000 people perished. Kagame denounced the arrest, calling it "total contempt" for his nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...We’re a small department; we don’t have a number of different programs where we could cut one,” said German professor Peter J. Burgard. “At this point it’s all too vague as to what we should be looking at in terms of cuts...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Discusses Financial Future | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...controversy, Shleifer was allowed to keep his endowed Harvard professorship, in part due to his close relationship with Summers, according to a January 2006 article in Institutional Investor magazine.A month after the article was published, Abernathy and 15 other FAS professors spoke out against Summers, and on Feb. 9, German and comparative literature professor Judith L. Ryan submitted a motion for a vote of no confidence in the University president—the second called for in two years.Summers resigned less than a week later after five years on the job, making him the shortest-tenured Harvard president since...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Professors: University Past Shouldn't Follow Summers' Political Future | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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