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...influential movers in France are now eager to put the relationship back on a friendlier footing. In a recent paper French think tank Institut Montaigne laid out an ambitious agenda for the two nations, arguing that a new impetus is needed if Europe's voice is to be heard in a world full of big new players, such as Brazil and India, and at a time when President Obama seems far more preoccupied with China and the rest of Asia than with America's traditional allies in Europe. Among other proposals, the think tank recommends that France share...
Holder, who called the state secrets move an important step toward rebuilding the public's trust in the governments use of this privilege, laid out the new guidelines in a four-page memo specifying that state secrecy would only be invoked when genuine or significant harm to national defense or foreign relations is at stake. Danielle Brian, executive director of the non-partisan watchdog Project on Government Oversight, called the state secrets privilege an executive branch abuse that really needed to be curtailed, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a liberal Democrat, said he was pleased with the Administration...
...changing the constitution to enable you to serve a third term? No, our constitution is a very good and vast constitution. We think that if anyone wants to get any work done, two tenures in office is sufficient. So, the opportunities have to move. I think that this principle laid out in the constitution is a very wise one, so I will definitely hold up the principles of the constitution and the continuity of those principles. There are individuals in Iran who are very capable and very many of them. There are so many individuals that can come...
...emotional impact that many Germans feel when visiting the excellent and imaginatively laid-out D.D.R. Museum in Berlin, www.ddr-museum.de, and its equivalent in Dresden, www. ddr-museum-dresden.de, doubtless goes a long way toward explaining the popularity of these vast repositories of recent history. Visitors in Germany for the 20th-anniversary party would do well to put either institution on the itinerary. "The D.D.R. was more than an artificial product of ideology and power - for millions of people it was their life," states the Berlin museum's comprehensive guidebook, introducing displays of everything from electronic goods to intricately reconstructed shop and household...
...boomed as billions of dollars of investment poured into new hotels and casinos and newly wealthy Chinese crowded baccarat and blackjack tables. But the good times came to a sudden end in late 2008 as the credit crunch paralyzed global financial markets. Gaming revenues sank and casinos laid off staff. Sheldon Adelson, chairman of casino operator Las Vegas Sands, was forced to halt his $12 billion plan to build an Asian version of the Las Vegas Strip on a stretch of reclaimed land called Cotai due to financing woes. The boomtown went bust...