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...Putin sees NATO as a continuation of a Cold War political system that no longer has relevance, to the point that it is “harmful and counterproductive.” The antagonism between Russia and NATO also hurts countries like Ukraine and Georgia, whose attempts to reach out to the West have been largely stifled by Russia’s opposition to what it views as the eastward expansion of NATO. NATO has made positive progress in Europe, but it can now be replaced with an organization that does not include the U.S. The EU does not have...
...Harvard sat in third place at the close of competition on Saturday, but with the A-division crew able to muster just one top-eight finish on Sunday, the national berth slipped out of the Crimson’s reach...
...excellent anchor to the ridiculousness in the first act and continues to hold attention during his monologues about casual gay sex. The ensemble does its best, and while they manage to produce some laughs with their over-the-top antics and well-timed sexual puns, by the time they reach the more serious second half, the audience is half gone...
Whenever someone asks me why I'm still a Roman Catholic in spite of the pedophile scandals and the retro dogma, I usually reach for Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and its story about a Catholic trying to convert a non-Catholic friend. The friend insists on visiting Rome so he can observe the Holy See himself. This being the 14th century, when church leaders were about as saintly as Enron executives, the Catholic fears that his pal will return home appalled. And so he does - but he declares he's ready to become a Catholic anyway. The reason: he figures...
...foreign journalists, Correa reiterated that the lucrative coca trade is attractive among the remote and economically threadbare border communities. "A large part of the population, above all in Amazonia, on [both] the Ecuadorian and Colombian sides support the FARC," he said, "because the Colombian and Ecuadorian [governments] don't reach them, and the ones who provide jobs, in drug cultivation, etcetera, are the FARC...