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There aren't many clubs harder to join than the G-8. You have to be at the top of the global heap: one of the very richest industrialized countries, potent enough to help steer the world's economy. And you're supposed to be a functioning democracy too. So when Vladimir Putin opens this year's G-8 summit next weekend at the sumptuous Palace of Congresses overlooking the sea 15 km from St. Petersburg, the famously stone-faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will...
...Reclaiming The Hood An important priority for a re-energized Russia has been the "near abroad": the former territories of the Soviet empire. To watch what were once coerced satellites like Estonia and Poland rush to join nato and the E.U. has been hard enough. But the nato membership likely to be sought by Ukraine, which shares a 2,063-km border with Russia, raises primal fears of encirclement. Kremlin propaganda already blames the sudden collapse of empire and economic dislocation on perfidy by ingrate "junior brothers" such as Ukraine, as well as hostile plots by the U.S. and nato...
...discord over Verdonk's original move. Hirsi Ali, 36, regrets that the citizenship issue was politicized and not debated more seriously. "This is absurd," she says. "The more this goes on, the more I think, Let's just all get on with life." She's moving to Washington to join the conservative American Enterprise Institute and is finishing her memoir. Its working title is a reminder that Hirsi Ali has no fear of stirring things up: "I want it to be called The Infidel...
...World Cup matches: Parisians have fun on their feet. This rainy Sunday night, as I forgo the football match and sit here in front of my computer to send my regards to The Crimson, my room reeks of the Camembert I mistakenly left out while briefly stepping out to join my host father in watching The Simpsons en Français. It is still delicious, though. (I’m currently in feasting mode, for the record). Aroma of Camembert or not, this moment is the first time during my whole month here that I have sat down...
...academic dean, Bane will become “the chief academic officer” overseeing curriculum, quality of teaching, and faculty assignment. Specifically, Bane will join the ongoing effort to sharpen the Kennedy School’s curriculum. Ellwood said he hopes to create more “signature” courses studying, for example, the areas of decision-making...