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...base in Manas, a critical transshipment point for U.S. and NATO military operations in Afghanistan. That decision was a victory for the Obama Administration: just four months ago, the Kyrgyz government had said that the U.S. military had to go. More broadly, Moscow's ability to project its power has been reduced by the fall in the price of oil since last summer; nearly 20 years after the end of communism and the introduction of market reforms, Russia's economy remains worryingly dependent on commodities...
...recently drew criticism when he plugged his fledgling recording-company project at appearances following Michael's death. The circumstances behind his interview with ABC have also raised eyebrows, as unconfirmed word has leaked out that Joe received $200,000 for the use of family films, which critics have decried as profiteering...
...Joseph S. Nye, another illustrious former Kennedy School dean who met McNamara in 1987 while working on an oral history project about the Cuban Missile Crisis, said that he had once thought of McNamara as "one-dimensional" and not to be admired. But later, through personal interactions, Nye said he found McNamara to be a man very interested in "moral questions" who genuinely cared about reducing poverty and nuclear risk...
...Having demonstrated his skills at conquering the electorate at home, SBY is expected to use his second term to project the country's power overseas as a country where Islam, democracy and modernity can peacefully, and successfully, co-exist. "We have the capital to be a moderate Muslim nation and now we also have the government," says Wimar. This, he emphasizes, is because his re-election was fully democratic in an exercise that international observers didn't even feel the need to monitor, as they did in 2004. "This shows that Indonesia is moving to a place where it doesn...
...call their project a "loving" one, spurred by the fact that Leitenberg's family contacted her Facebook friends. Both are quick to say their relatives are not the problem - Brooks Adickman says her parents aren't even "allowed" to join Facebook - but they recognized that others might not be so fortunate. "No matter how embarrassing your mom is, there's someone who's a thousand times worse," Leitenberg says...