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...Remaking whole nation-states in some of the world's most troubled regions is nothing if not a "big government" affair. It may take relatively small numbers of troops to knock out odious regimes, but stabilizing the countries they leave behind inevitably requires a lot more - a point some of the Iraq war's key architects, such as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, seemed conceptually unable to grasp before the war. But as the Economist tartly notes, war lite is all very well, empire lite could be a tragic mistake. Iraq - and Afghanistan - are only likely to be stabilized...
Justin Feldman said that Zachariah Germaniuk did not trip and accidentally knock Feldman into the window. “He threw me out the window,” Feldman said...
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks freely and carries a big stick. He has revolutionized Italy's perennially gray politics but drawn fire for his vast media holdings as well as for gaffes like a tasteless Nazi gibe directed at a German colleague and a knock on German tourists by one of his deputies. TIME's Jeff Israely talked with him on the eve of his visit with President Bush...
...Chester is what psychiatrists mean when they talk about unconditional love. Unbridled is more like it. Come into our house, and he was so happy to see you, he would knock you over. (Deliverymen learned to leave things at the front door...
...private operators have yet been granted licenses in France or Spain, even though both nations have implemented legislation that should technically allow for it. In Germany, where some private operators have been allowed, DB's ceo, former aerospace executive Hartmut Mehdorn, is cutting staff and spiffing up stations to knock the railroad into shape before a planned public offering in 2005. He has also bulked up the company's international-freight operations with the acquisition of former state-owned firms in Denmark and the Netherlands. Some worry that DB is assembling a dominant position in Europe's freight market that...