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...Obama Goes to Europe I enjoyed Karen Tumulty's article and overseas interview with Barack Obama [Aug. 4]. As a military man who spent some 35 years on active duty or working as a contractor for the U.S. Air Force, I appreciated Senator Obama's comment on our military mission: "We still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done - and that's our men and women in uniform." That statement makes him qualified in my mind to be the Commander in Chief. Sid Howard, Midwest City, Okla...
Equally forceful, and potentially more confrontational, is the humanitarian mission. Bush noted that Russian armored vehicles were blocking access to the port city of Poti and that Russia was blowing up Georgian vessels. Bush said Gates would launch a "vigorous and ongoing" humanitarian mission by both air and sea. "In the days ahead we will use U.S. aircraft as well as naval forces to deliver humanitarian and medical supplies," he said...
...with his daily intelligence briefing, which became a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC). Bush spoke to French President Nicolas Sarkozy at 10 a.m., then made his announcement in the Rose Garden at 11:10 a.m. The plan had been for Rice to announce the humanitarian mission at 10:30 a.m. But Bush and his advisers apparently decided that the President himself needed to deliver a more forceful American response to Russia. "The situation on the ground changed," NSC spokesman Gordon Johndroe said...
...company. That sounds like a pretty innocuous job, but it's misleading in this sense: Yakunin is an old St. Petersburg crony of Putin's and, like the Prime Minister, is widely believed to have been a career KGB field officer, including serving as resident at the Soviet U.N. mission in New York. Then came the revolution, and Boris Yeltsin, and the demise of the country that men like Yakunin had served for most of their lives...
...have a vast repository of content created by faculty and peer reviewed internally," Komaroff said. "Our goal is to distribute high quality health information to the general public—and that's part of Harvard Medical School's educational mission...