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...worked either. Last November, the commission stripped Bulgaria of $310 million in funds for failing to tackle corruption; the move had a barely discernible effect on reforms. E.U. officials have also grumbled that Bulgaria's yawning failures have undermined the E.U.'s own credibility as an authority to lay down the law on wayward members...
...anyone’s game. With a population that is largely transplant, allegiances are fickle (in the interest of full disclosure, my allegiance will always be with the Braves, as I am a native of the South, but there’s always room for two). Therefore I lay myself before you, oh mighty Golden State. You decide my baseball fan destiny...
...Accra speech was the fourth attempt in as many months to lay out Obama's vision for a new era of global cooperation. Many of the themes from his addresses in Prague, Cairo and Moscow returned to the fore. Obama described a future anchored in institutions of governance and international agreement, where tribal identities would be subsumed by a common sense of humanity and international economics would turn old national competitions into alliances. He portrayed the peaceful transfer of power in competitive democracies as the next step in Africa's century-long emergence from the shackles of colonial rule. "This...
...wanted to make sure that before they went into the specific dos and don'ts, that they understood the framework and the concept behind it. And the concept behind it is that although you are still authorized to use close air support when you need to - and I lay out some very specific conditions that they must meet to do that; we don't take it away because there are those unique conditions where you need to do it, and I am not going to put the force in a position where they don't have those available when those...
...Alim denied that either factor lay at the root of the eruption of anger. "The real cause," he says, "is six decades of heavy-handed repression by the Chinese government in Xinjiang that has reduced Uighurs to second-class citizens in their own homeland. If we speak up, we get killed. If we don't speak up, we will be wiped out as a people in a few decades" by Han Chinese immigration and forced assimilation. Bequelin said the feeling of helplessness and desperation conveyed by those words gives a strong indication of the forces driving the Uighur protesters...