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...become a serious concern. On Feb. 23, at the NATO strategic concept seminar, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was particularly blunt. "The demilitarization of Europe - where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it - has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st." Plenty of European diplomats would agree with him. After the speech one diplomat spoke of an "inertia" among Europeans when confronted with novel threats. "We have to explain...
...stop drinking water after 7 p.m. to reduce the odds of being raped if they have to use the bathroom at night? Or that a soldier who was assaulted when she went out for a cigarette was afraid to report it for fear she would be demoted - for having gone out without her weapon? Or that, as Representative Jane Harman puts it, "a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire...
While some wish for a Gone With the Wind red carpet of old, Pratt insists the glamour has just been tech-charged...
...Once an iconic symbol, the carpet has lost several shades of its crimson hue in a town that now sees about four red-carpet events a night. "It used to be a rare thing and people used to get excited about the red carpet, but now the mystique is gone," says Hollywood publicist Ben Russo, of EMC/Bowery, a player on the Hollywood party scene. "It's way too oversaturated. Now any mom and pop opening around here can and will have a red carpet." (See TIME's picks for this year's Oscar winners...
Meanwhile, the opposition remains deeply divided. Egos sometimes override pragmatism, and a real alliance appears unthinkable. Since Kaliningrad, opposition leaders have gone back to denouncing one another. "There is a fear of competition between them," says Valeriya Novodvorskaya, a prominent Soviet dissident and a vocal critic of Putin's rule. First arrested by the KGB for her activism in 1969, Novodvorskaya is no stranger to the opposition, but she is wary of the latest flare-up in public resentment. "A street protest is not a grocery store," she says. "You go there to demand your freedom...