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Your selection of Russian President Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year was spot on [Dec. 31, 2007?Jan. 7, 2008]. Putin may yet become the single most important person of the 21st century. Occupying the largest landmass of any nation, Russia has just begun to tap its natural resources and national potential. Putin's rise to power in 1999 is an astonishing story and was a stroke of genius by an otherwise embarrassing drunk of a President, Boris Yeltsin. Putin is that rare individual who came to govern Russia without the cancerous corruption that seems to plague East European...
...abandonment of a political solution has burst whatever remained of the dam that held Sri Lanka's bloodshed in check. In the first days of this new year, fighting has killed more than 150 combatants on both sides, including the Tigers' head of military intelligence. On Jan. 8, a roadside bomb outside Colombo killed D.M. Dassanayake, Sri Lanka's Minister for Nation-Building...
...Tamed Russia Your selection of Russian President Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year was spot-on [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. Putin may yet become the single most important person of the 21st century. Occupying the largest landmass of any nation, Russia has just begun to tap its natural resources and national potential. Putin's rise to power in 1999 is an astonishing story and was a stroke of genius by an otherwise embarrassing drunk of a President, Boris Yeltsin. Putin is that rare individual who came to govern Russia without the cancerous corruption that seems to plague...
...North Korea, made it clear the U.S. would be flexible on the missed deadline for full disclosure. "No one likes being late, but I think being late is probably preferable than being wrong or giving us something that we can't work with," Hill told reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 7. In another sign of a softer line toward the North, the U.S. State Department even urged the New York Philharmonic orchestra recently to play a concert in Pyongyang next month...
...This is who I am. This is my life.' SERGEANT DARREN MANZELLA, U.S. Army medic and a decorated veteran of Iraq, discussing his homosexuality in a Jan. 8 press conference. Manzella has been openly gay since August 2006, despite the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy; its critics have argued that his case proves the policy is arbitrarily enforced...