Word: membership
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...some ties to Harvard: Their older daughter, Cate, is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. The other fellows’ arrival marks continued efforts by the IOP to expand its international focus. The first woman to serve as president of Latvia, Vike-Freiberga helped her country gain membership to North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union during her two terms from 1999 to 2007. “She is generally an emblem of gender equality,” said Woodbridge Society liaison Alexandre J. Terrien ’11. “She is very important...
...years. On Thursday NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer unveiled a series of decisions reached by the 26 member states that will, he says, "substantially change the Alliance." Yet Scheffer's announcement bitterly disappointed three countries that had hoped to be on a fast track to NATO membership...
...church’s membership has dwindled to seven members, mostly family and close friends of the pastor, Sister Shirley Davis...
...follow the summit by taking its most powerful leader, President George W. Bush, back to his vacation home at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. But the formal bonhomie won't hide the escalating tension in the relationship between Washington and Moscow. President Bush on Tuesday strongly backed NATO membership bids by the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia, a move fiercely opposed by Moscow, which sees it as an effort to extend a geopolitical rival's presence to Russia's southern and southwestern frontiers. Although some European NATO members are reluctant to antagonize Russia by forging ahead with...
...early 1990s, NATO had promised Moscow that once Soviet troops withdrew from Eastern Europe, NATO would not expand beyond West Germany. Russians decry the West's broken word, and question the purpose of NATO's encircling them from the west and south. Ukraine's prospective NATO membership is particularly painful to Russia in terms of security and emotions: Ukraine is the site of Kievan Rus, the original state from which both Russia and Ukraine sprang. Russian historians traditionally referred to Kiev as "The Mother of Russian cities." As for Georgia, Moscow frets about what it sees as an encirclement...