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...Ritchie will keep a 1,200-acre estate in Wiltshire and the couple's Punchbowl pub in London's tony neighborhood of Mayfair. The remaining London properties - a $10 million townhouse, a $9 million townhouse next door to it and two cottages - will be sold and the money split...
...case of Turkey, the question for Europe is not, as with Russia, how to avoid a dangerous rivalry. It is, rather, how to institutionalize relations with Turkey so that it can be Europe's partner in a dangerous neighborhood. At a recent World Economic Forum conference in Istanbul, I was struck both by how creative Turkish diplomacy now is in the whole ring of instability to its east and south, from Armenia right round to Syria, and how much Turks wanted to work with Europeans to extend the area of peace and economic integration which has, since the Treaty...
...case, Turkey's role as a conduit for refugees adds to the anti-immigrant resentment building in Greece. "Of every 10 people walking down this street, one is Greek," says a 61-year-old owner of a sporting-goods store in an increasingly multi-ethnic neighborhood around Athens' Omonoia Square. "Immigrants are both good and bad: 5% good...
...calm in which the human species was formed is only a brief drawing of the breath before the cosmic assault begins once more." So how do we maximize our time in what de Villiers calls a "perilously thin habitable layer on a vulnerable and unstable planet in a hostile neighborhood"? Plan for the worst. As he says, "Good information is the best antidote...
...implementing the surge, Odierno pushed five new brigades into Baghdad's neighborhoods and gave them surveillance equipment like aerial drones, ground sensors and blimps with closed-circuit cameras, allowing each small outpost to watch over many city blocks. He also worked with the Iraqi forces to bring National Police and Iraqi army soldiers into Baghdad from all over the country. Displaying political dexterity, he persuaded a nervous Iraqi government to sign on to the Sons of Iraq program, which turned thousands of insurgents into neighborhood-watch groups. If Petraeus gets credit for ushering in the surge, it was Odierno...