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...value," says Anne. That process of constant upgrading has helped make Spain rich - and kept cranes along the Mediterranean coast operating at sometimes reckless speed. Now the trade is slowing down, and there are warning signs of decay. An alleged kickback scheme has led to high-level arrests this year in Marbella, Spain's jet-set and botox capital. Authorities in the Valencia region have been challenged by foreign owners and the European Commission over a 12-year-old law that allows communities to reclassify already developed land and force owners to sell. Environmentalists have been deploring the overdevelopment...
...Federation Council voted unanimously, bar two abstentions, to remove the man who led the prosecution of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Kremlin has offered little explanation, saying only that it was part of a personnel reshuffle. Ustinov's is the latest in a spate of dismissals of high-level security and law-enforcement officials...
...thousands of Marines, many on their third and fourth tours, whose conduct on this most treacherous of battlefields has been not just honorable, but selfless and heroic. And even if proved, Haditha is no My Lai, with its victims in the hundreds, attendant sexual crimes, direct officer involvement and high-level cover-up by a dozen officers, including colonels and generals...
...author of Black Hawk Down, about the 1993 U.S. military mission in Mogadishu that went lethally wrong, Bowden knows something about American misadventures in the wider world. He may not be a policy analyst, but he writes about events in a way that gives a clear picture of both high-level decision making and the price paid by people on the ground. Maybe that's something more policy analysts should...
...Hayden, a polished congressional witness and acknowledged PowerPoint ninja whose high-level briefing skills are perhaps second to none in Washington, is all but certain to face questions on several fronts...