Word: recente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Makovsky has some real credibility on this subject. He and top Obama adviser Dennis Ross offered a version of this idea in a recent book with a long title. Makovsky then presented the plan to Benjamin Netanyahu over the summer. And? "He was noncommittal," Makovsky says. Indeed, if Netanyahu agreed to the land swap, his right-wing coalition would atomize. But he could still form a new government by aligning with the centrist Kadima Party. And then he would have the chance to be remembered as the man who finally secured Israel's borders - the sort of achievement that actually...
...meeting has been in the works for months, almost since the earliest days of the Obama Administration, and postponed at least once. It is just the most recent display of bipartisan goodwill between current and past holders of the highest office in the land. These alliances often span vast differences in both ideology and age: Richard Nixon paid a secret visit to Bill Clinton, 33 years his junior, to discuss Russia policy in 1993; Herbert Hoover met with John F. Kennedy, 38 years his junior, before he was inaugurated in 1960. Bush, at 85, is 37 years older than Obama...
...Delhi, where the dining scene is dominated by fussy five-star hotels and flashy restaurant cum nightclubs, Gunpowder is something different. Here, a casual aesthetic rules. The cotton tablecloths are secured with binder clips and the day's menu is just a neatly stapled printout. On a recent evening, Warier and his business partner, Kiran Bhushi, happily pulled up chairs to chat with guests; one diner picked up a guitar and started strumming. This was his dream, Warier says, "a place where people can come, chill, relax." (Read "McCurry: the Indian Eatery That Beat McDonald...
...influence, Moscow and Beijing are linked by 21st century economic concerns. "We cannot be as close as we were in the 1950s," says Han. The communist neighbors grew apart starting in 1956, and even after the fall of the Soviet Union, trade between Russia and China remained slow. In recent years it has expanded rapidly, from $10.7 billion in 2001 to $56.9 billion in 2008. "Half of that is energy," says Zweig. "Energy is a very important component of the bilateral trade relationship. In many ways, it is a pillar." These days, it's a much more sturdy pillar than...
...extremist organizations behind the violence are hardly champions of women's equality, but there have been reports in recent months of groups of young women - some of them survivors of 2007's showdown between the army and militant supporters at Islamabad's Red Mosque - traveling to Dera Ghazi Khan in southern Punjab to cement ties with jihadist groups there. The involvement of women fighters may be peculiar to Punjab-based militant groups. The Taliban forces in the northwest don't tolerate women walking out their homes unaccompanied by male relatives or being educated, much less trained as fighters...