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Within months of the collapse of communism in 1989, hideous hybrid organizations including among their numbers newly unemployed secret policemen - together with the likes of Olympic wrestlers and weightlifters - seized effective control of former Warsaw Pact states like Bulgaria. What began as muscle-bound gangs, running the streets of Sofia and other cities, quickly graduated into networks that, for example, become the major importers of stolen cars from Western Europe...
...appears to be over. When President Hu Jintao embarked upon his first trip there, in 2004, African nations, flush with the romance of a first date, fell over themselves in welcome. China inked deal after deal: a $2.3 billion stake in a Nigerian offshore petroleum field; a $1.5 billion pact to upgrade Ethiopia's telecom system; massive investments in Angola, now China's largest source of oil imports. China won diplomatic victories, too, getting Chad, Malawi and Senegal to switch recognition from Taipei to Beijing in just the past three years. And in 2006, Beijing hosted a triumphant follow...
...same is often said of his country's military, long accused of killing innocent rural civilians and fostering right-wing, cocaine-trafficking paramilitary armies, vicious groups the government has only recently begun to dismantle. As a result, some in the U.S. Congress are balking at a free-trade pact with Colombia...
...Soviet states into the organization as dangerous because of the likelihood that their admission would anger Russia. Instances like these illustrate the political tensions that NATO’s exclusion of Russia causes. NATO was conceived in 1949 as a bulwark against the Communist bloc, which formed the Warsaw Pact in response. Even though the Warsaw Pact dissolved 20 years ago and many of its former constituents have joined Western organizations like the European Union (EU), NATO still exists. As a Western military alliance it continues to play a significant role in European politics.NATO’s actions...
...every House is above capacity, there wasn’t an inch of space.” Adding transfer students only stands to compound a problem that has, in the words of The Crimson Staff, already caused the “unprecedented breaking of an unspoken pact that leaves the Class of 2009 feeling at worst, cheated and at best, ignored.” Space constraints have become “a matter of mental health...