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“Last game, we choked up when they started pressing us,” Markley said. “[Tonight] we were ready to take on whatever they gave us.”
Last week, during her tour of Asia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noted the difficulty of pressing China on human rights violations in Tibet in the face of an economic crisis. In any case, it’s likely that China will do nothing at all for the Tibetans. Neither...
Last week, President Obama nominated Ashton B. Carter, the Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, to become the new director of weapons procurement at the Pentagon. Carter, who has been an outspoken critic of wasteful and excessive defense spending, brings an already...
Still, they have not sold as well as intended due to hardware problems and government skepticism. Many claim OLPC siphons time and energy from more pressing needs, doesn’t support local infrastructure, and assaults the integrity and dignity of many non-Western cultures.
The Obama Administration may be pressing Pakistan to intensify its efforts against Islamic militants on its soil, but Islamabad has its own ways of tackling the issue - most recently in the form of truces with local Taliban forces, a development that has raised eyebrows in Washington. Pity the intelligence analyst...