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...cold drinks." A group of five men, including two building engineers, come to scout the project for the Italian town of Selvetta, where things are even darker - nearly four sunless months each winter. Like Viganella residents, they complain more of high heating bills than of depression supposedly linked to lack of sun. Franco Rolandi, who runs the only café nearby, says the scarce heat from the mirror isn't the point. "This town is heading for extinction. We need to do something," he says. "Remember when they built the Eiffel Tower? People said, 'What's the point?' Now look...
Does China's lack of democracy necessarily threaten U.S. interests? One answer to that question involves looking back to the cold war. The Soviet Union was not a democracy, and although the U.S. contested its power in all sorts of ways, American policymakers were content to live with the reality of Soviet strength in the hope (correct, as it turned out) that communism's appeal outside its borders would wither and Russia's political system would become more open. Is that how the U.S. should treat a nondemocratic China? In the forthcoming book The China Fantasy, James Mann, an experienced...
...This lack of leverage over Chinese behavior may make for an uncomfortable future. Mann sees a time when a powerful China not only remains undemocratic but also sustains unpleasant regimes in power, as it does today in such nations as Zimbabwe and Burma. Such behavior could make the world a colder place for freedom. Green, the former National Security Council staff member, agrees that China "wants to build speed bumps on the road to political globalization and liberalization" and is "particularly against any attempt to spread democracy." Sandschneider, the German China expert, says the Chinese "talk about peace and cooperation...
...points-per-game.All three of those categories were improved by Cusworth’s monster game at Dartmouth. The big man led the team with a career-high tying 25 points, a game-high 15 rebounds, and four blocked shots.The Big Green is deep in the front court but their lack of height--with their tallest players standing three inches shorter than the seven foot Cusworth--led to mismatches on the offensive end. Trying to defend the big man caused foul problems for Dartmouth. Forwards Elgin Fitzgerald and Brian McMillan each committed four fouls, while fellow forwards Dan Biber and Kurt Graeber...
...probably the biggest piece of kabuki in the President's speech. Just a few months ago, in November, Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services committee that there were no - as in zero - Iraqi army units currently operating independent of U.S. forces. The Pentagon's inspector general has reported they lack the men, the weapons, the trucks - pretty much everything - to be ready to fight. Meanwhile, the Iraq Study Group said the police units were almost completely corrupt or infiltrated by sectarian militias. It is a little hard to square those reports with the way the President talked about...