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...friend giving me a ride swapped just a couple of grim words with his wife on his cell phone, then turned to me. "They fired her," he said sadly. "There go our plans." The wife, who had enjoyed a cushy bank job, then joined the tens of thousands of Russia's new middle class who have found themselves newly unemployed...
...humble” foreign policy characterized by an explicit disavowal of “nation-building.” In January 2009, he will leave his successor with every single one of his disastrous legacies, including two very real wars on the ground, an angry and resurgent Russia, and hostility overseas. Our next President will have to not only correct Bush’s errors—a Herculean task in and of itself—but will also have to restore America’s standing in the world...
...forget the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the rise of China, the bluster of boom-and-bust Russia, the murky threat of Iran and the accelerating decay of Pakistan. Between the economic crisis at home and the geopolitical cauldron abroad, the new President's agenda will be largely predetermined. He might wish he could shrug off this dismal inheritance and devote himself to the shiny projects cataloged on his campaign website - but that's beyond his power...
...Obama, whose one-week summer tour through several European countries demonstrated the support the Democrat has abroad. “We need to work shoulder-to-shoulder with the next American administration to tackle the issues,” Lamassoure added. He pointed to the diplomatic crisis between Russia and Georgia and problems like global warming and nuclear proliferation as areas where Americans and Europeans could work together. Lamassoure also said that France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has brought about a significantly more pro-American climate in his country. He noted that Sarkozy has rejected socialism?...
...there are other possible explanations for the missing opium. While fewer people in Europe and the U.S. use heroin - cocaine is much more popular among young drug users - heroin addiction is a growing problem in Russia and China. The spokesman for the British law-enforcement agency believes that the missing opium could be making its way to these growing markets, which may not yet be showing up on U.N. drug-consumption figures. "Some of the missing opium might also be lost during smuggling or processing, or be stashed everywhere from Kandahar to Turkey - even Western Europe," says Paul Smyth, head...