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...getting older, and the separations were getting harder. He and Betsy, 42, had found a piece of land in Maine and were planning to build a new home, maybe even finally start the family they had never had--unless you counted Samantha, their 18-year-old golden retriever--German shepherd mix. After nine months in Kosovo in 2001, where he turned 50, Chris was ready to come home and stay there. But as it happened, when he went to talk to his supervisor about retiring from the reserves, he learned that the Pentagon had recently announced a "stop loss" order...
...created problems at the European Parliament by jokingly referring to a German member as "perfect" for the role of A Nazi prison guard. Have you ever thought to adopt a more cautious approach? I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able...
...What do you really think of German tourists? Ich bin ein Berliner...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI, the Italian Prime Minister and new president of the European Union, often puts his foot in his mouth. Last week he outdid himself. When a German minister questioned his fitness for the post, Berlusconi snapped, "I know there is a man in Italy producing a film on the Nazi concentration camps. I would like to suggest you for the role of leader." He says he's not apologizing...
...labor: the Taliban focus on southern Afghanistan and Hizb-i-Islami on the east, which frees al-Qaeda "to use its limited strength for operations overseas," explains Gunaratna. (Several U.S. and Afghan intelligence sources, however, suspect al-Qaeda engineered a June 7 suicide bombing in Kabul that killed four German peacekeeping soldiers and an Afghan teenager...