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...team was in action at the U.S. Naval Academy for the Trux Umsted Intersectional, where it captured a respectable sixth place out of a field of twenty. Most impressive was Harvard's status as the top team in the Northeastern conference...
...bluff at a time when the military and economic risks make it impractical for China to respond with force," says Dowell. Nonetheless, domestic political concerns leave Beijing unable to tolerate any formalization of Taiwan's de facto independence, which is why the Chinese military has been steadily expanding its naval and air power. While full-blown hostilities may be some way off, the Cold War across the Taiwan Strait is right back on the front burner...
...tone down the rhetoric. Washington fears the threats from both sides could develop a momentum of their own, provoking a military showdown that would inevitably draw in the U.S. During the 1996 Taiwan election, Beijing fired missiles over an outlying island and the U.S. responded by sending a naval battle group into the strait. But for all the bluster and buildup of missiles on the coastline of Fujian province, however, China right now lacks the military means to mount an effective invasion - a naval force capable of rapidly deploying tens of thousands of troops on the island...
...represents a return to an area closely linked with German history. Before World War II, the Russian region of Kaliningrad, separated from the motherland by Poland and Lithuania, was Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia. From 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it served as a major Soviet naval base and was off limits to Westerners. But now BMW's $25 million joint venture is up and running and--mirabile dictu--is actually assembling cars from so-called knockdown kits. "The Russian market may be chaotic," says Klaus Liske, BMW's local production director, "but we're confident that...
...years of marriage were consumed by her husband's naval career, yet McCain looks back at her time as a service wife with delight, though the pay was dismal and her husband was gone for long stretches. When he was home, Jack was a tireless workaholic. "You know you're proud of your husband," she says. "If you chose the Navy, you do what it requires. A lot of wives didn't like that, and thankfully they left...