Word: neighborism
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...necessary (later relinquished) and that it be granted a perpetual lease on its naval base at Guantánamo Bay (not). For the next half-century the two countries more or less cooperated, with the U.S. helping to squash rebellions and heavily investing in the economy of its tiny neighbor. The American mafia used Havana as a conference center in 1946. Ernest Hemingway lived there for 22 years; he wrote The Old Man and the Sea at his villa just outside the capital...
...continuing education. Panelist William R. Moomaw, director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts’ Fletcher School, said he attributes the slow speed of environmental policymaking to differing expectations from international actors. While China continues to make monumental strides towards a greener society, its neighbor, India, has not made significant improvements, he said. The panelists all praised China for its efforts in “greening” the country. According to Moomaw, China currently keeps track of a “Green GDP” and will have the highest production of solar panels...
That’s right. As a cost saving measure, the IOP will cut back on incentivizing student participation with ooey-gooey cheesy goodness. Instead, you’ll be left uncomfortably picking kernels out of your back molars or discreetly whispering to your neighbor “Am I clean?” while curling back your upper...
...country on display, colored according to threat levels - a broad slash of red (highest level) running across the southern half, bordering Pakistan. Indeed, two-thirds of Helmand province, the prime poppy-growing area, was colored black, which meant it is in Taliban control. Helmand and its neighbor, Kandahar province, is where most of the 17,000 additional U.S. troops are headed. They will arrive just as the poppy crop has been harvested, the moment when many rural Afghans trade their ploughs for rifles and "fighting season" commences, a term that Admiral Mullen doesn't like - there were Taliban attacks through...
Abroad, the former President failed to rein in fellow liberator and neighbor Mugabe, when the Zimbabwean leader unleashed his security forces on the opposition, crippled his country's economy and created millions of refugees. At the U.N., South Africa has consistently defended some of the world's worst regimes - Burma and Sudan, as well as Zimbabwe - against punitive international measures, apparently more concerned about Western bullying than the way governments treat their own people. As Feinstein says, the ANC "hasn't sent a great signal to other countries in Africa that are trying to build democracy and progress...