Word: realpolitiker
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...earthbound. That is an emotional negation of Jesus Christ's spiritual promise of eternal life. True believers should be cheering John Paul's departure and longing for the day they meet again with him in God's very own realm. Humberto Sarkis Beverly Hills, California, U.S. Imagine: the realpolitik savvy of a Henry Kissinger combined with the moral code of a Mother Teresa. John Paul II's worldliness combined with his faith in the other world made him a remarkably effective global leader. John Anderson Elkmont, Alabama...
...involvement, and that Schubert's Winterreise and Schöne Müllerin represent the Romantics' concentration on the individual and his relationship to nature. Similarly, he asserts that Berlioz's Trojans dramatizes the 19th century's obsession with history, that Verdi's Don Carlo portrays the conflict between liberalism and realpolitik, that Wagner's Meistersinger illustrates the aesthetic movement's beliefs about art and society, and that Strauss's Rosenkavalier represents the dawning modern sense of psychological...
...attracting minority support, with the Kurds being the prize on the assumption that they would have won close to 20 percent of the vote. The problem is that most Kurds don't really want to be part of Iraq at all, and are forced by realpolitik to accept affiliation with Baghdad, meaning that they seek the loosest possible federation for a new Iraqi national state, with plenty of minority veto safeguards. But Grand Ayatollah Sistani is strongly opposed to accommodating Kurdish aspirations at the expense of the central state, and if Allawi's showing gives him enough seats...
...decision, there will be opportunities for Russia to stir up separatism. Whether that happens will depend on Putin's ability to reconcile traditional Russian interests and fears with the reality of modern Europe, says Michael Emerson of the Center for European Policy in Brussels. "The more Putin pushes realpolitik," he says, "the more Ukrainians will want to go in the other direction...
...changed positions dramatically on several issues, shifting from a hard-nosed student of realpolitik to a true believer in Bush's vision of spreading democracy from Morocco to Afghanistan. Her transformation "was a bit of an iterative process," she told TIME last month. "One of the President's contributions had been to remind us all, again, of the link between our security and our values...