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...know about the situation Greece was in before you came to office? How big a surprise was this crisis to you? We all knew, and I knew personally, that Greece was going through a crisis, but the level of the impact of the crisis on the economy was not known. (See pictures of Athens threatened by wildfires...
...Graf's behavior raises a question. Her bizarre actions were well known by everyone in several commands. Since all officers must undergo a periodic evaluation of their performance by superiors, how did Graf continue to get top ratings? That question, it seems, must be asked of Graf's superiors. William Aylward Reston...
...march 26, President Obama announced that the U.S. and Russia will cut their deployed long-range nuclear arsenals by 30% over seven years. The START Follow-On Treaty, as it is known, is the descendant of a series of Cold War arms-control agreements that had an unlikely progenitor: the spectacular failure of the most ambitious disarmament program ever conceived. The Versailles Treaty of 1919, which was designed to disarm Germany but which failed to prevent World War II, led to a more sober approach to arms control predicated on the belief that conflict is inevitable and a balance...
...least one person was reported killed, and more than 150 injured in clashes between soldiers and the protesters known as the Red Shirts for the color they wear, as tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and some live rounds were fired on a major avenue in the old quarter of Bangkok. Hostilities erupted around midday after about 300 Red Shirts attempted to breach the walls and lines of troops surrounding the First Regiment army base. The base is located on an avenue adjacent to the Phan Fa Bridge, one of two major intersections the protesters have seized in the capital...
...nightfall, the fighting had intensified, with gunfire heard repeatedly in the old quarter. About 20 soldiers were wounded when protesters hurled bombs at them at an intersection known as Kok Wua, not far from the Democracy Monument. Several television reports said protesters used guns seized from troops to fire at soldiers. Government House, where the Prime Minister normally works, was struck with two M-79 grenades. The government had shut down the city's elevated commuter rail line after protest leaders threatened to seize it, and troops were closing off two main bridges leading to the capital to prevent more...