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...1990s. As has been widely reported, some of the groups that helped organize the 2003 Rose Revolution that ousted his predecessor, Eduard Shevardnadze, received funding from the U.S. government. Since Saakashvili took office in 2004, his government has continued to receive strong U.S. funding, and the Georgian military was rebuilt with the help of U.S. defense aid and training from American military advisers. (Georgia also sent 2,000 men to fight alongside the U.S. in Iraq.) Several U.S. citizens, including Daniel Kunin, the son of former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin, have worked as senior aides to Saakashvili's administration. Randy...
...Three years later, it has yet to be rebuilt, due mainly to issues involving the government and insurance companies. "I watch the BBC, where America goes to all these countries and rebuilds communities in a matter of days," my mom observed last night. "That just doesn't happen here. People are losing hope, people are tired." Nearly three-quarters of New Orleans' pre-storm population has returned since Katrina. Yet, in large swaths of the city, the fundamentals of community - schools, police stations, hospitals - have yet to be rebuilt. And don't get me started on grocery stores. When...
...aftermath of the war, some talked predictably tough. NATO promised there would be "no business as usual" with Moscow. "Georgia's infrastructure will be rebuilt," said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "Russia's reputation, that's another matter." But for all the bluster, some old questions naggingly asked themselves. When will politicians learn that if they promise to protect someone, they better mean it - or not make the promise? How far, precisely, from its present borders does Russia think that its vital national interests extend? And how in the years to come will an energy-anxious West live with...
...Towering blast walls now cordon off the field of rubble and debris outside the ruined al-Askari shrine. Before the bombing, it drew anywhere from 250 to 500 pilgrims a week; today there are none. But it is being slowly and carefully rebuilt under the direction of UNESCO, with the backing of the Iraqi government and the European Commission. Mourad Zmit, the Samarra project manager for UNESCO, says it may take four years, and up to $300 million to restore the ancient structure, depending on the results of the damage assessment over the next several months. But the fact that...
...Olympic buzz has reached deafening proportions. In a period of months, my district, laid out 700 years ago during the Ming dynasty, saw lanes repaved, streetlights installed, sewage lines overhauled, roofs repaired, doors painted, windows replaced and rooms that had been haphazardly added onto old homes demolished and rebuilt in a traditional style. Piles of construction debris filled the streets; antique wooden eaves with hand-painted floral patterns were left out as scrap...