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...before the raid neatly highlighted the chasm between the smooth theory and the turbulent reality of Putin's Russia. NTV has shone a spotlight on this divide, while state networks feign not to see it. The Kremlin would clearly like to turn NTV's spotlight off. The first news item was the return home from a Swiss jail of Pavel Borodin, the high-ranking Russian official who a few years ago found a Kremlin job for the then out-of-work Vladimir Putin. Borodin, who is being investigated in Switzerland on money-laundering charges, had been released on $3 million...
...That last item may be difficult to achieve. "We probably will get the plane back," a senior Pentagon official says, "but only after the Chinese have wrung every drop of intelligence out of it." U.S. and Chinese officials will meet this week to trade demands for new rules in the reconnaissance game the U.S. has no intention of giving up. Administration sources were quick to say last week that it would be not a listening tour for the U.S. team but a chance to ask what the President called "tough questions...
With all the excitement down in Washington these days—trillion-dollar tax cuts, tense confrontations with foreign powers—it is easy to miss a little item like an interhemispheric free trade agreement. Easy to miss, but crucial to watch: the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) has become a top priority of the new Bush Administration. FTAA? Trade agreement? Big acronym—big deal. Eyes glaze over...
...Several years ago while driving across Arkansas, I left the interstate to visit Hope, to see Bill Clinton's boyhood home. There I purchased a postcard that is my favorite item of presidential memorabilia. It shows Clinton's fifth grade class (little Billy unmistakable). The caption on the back reads as follows...
...That last item may be difficult to achieve. "We probably will get the plane back," a senior Pentagon official says, "but only after the Chinese have wrung every drop of intelligence out of it." U.S. and Chinese officials will meet this week to trade demands for new rules in the reconnaissance game the U.S. has no intention of giving up. Administration sources were quick to say last week that it would be not a listening tour for the U.S. team but a chance to ask what the President called "tough questions...