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...which he has aligned Russian interests with those of another natural rival to the U.S., China. Putin and China's President Hu Jintao meet frequently - five times in the last year alone. They've reached agreement on how to draw their countries' long-contested border and conducted large-scale joint military exercises. Two-way trade, which reached $29.1 billion last year, was up more than 50% in the first quarter of 2006 compared to 2005. Hu and Putin have a lot in common besides their approach to the U.S.: hostility toward "separatism" (in Chechnya, Tibet and Xinjiang) and wariness...
...Abducted by Palestinian militants at an army post in Israel and smuggled into Gaza on June 25, he might not have known that his captivity had set off a furious Israeli campaign to try to save him--and in the process, propelled both sides to the brink of full-scale warfare. While surveillance drones buzzed overhead, some 7,000 troops, 80 Israeli tanks and 180 armored personnel carriers massed at the border with Gaza, territory Israel evacuated less than a year ago. The Israelis seized Gaza's dilapidated airport to prevent Shalit's kidnappers from moving him out, with units...
That, as any parent knows, is a scenario trip-wired for fights--and that's what happened. The experimenters ranked the conflicts on a five-point scale, with one being a single cross word and five being a full-blown brawl. The next year, they went to the same children's schools to observe them at play and interview their teachers. Almost universally, the kids who practiced the best conflict-resolution skills at home carried those abilities into the classroom...
...audacity of the schemes, the scale of the waste--it is just breathtaking...
...that a lot of innocent people died in Haditha. The members of Kilo Company apparently abused their power while serving there. Perhaps they were confused because they can't distinguish friend from foe. It's as though the My Lai massacre had happened again, albeit on a smaller scale. One thing is sure: history does repeat itself. Jane Carla Yu Quezon City, the Philippines Unanswered Questions With all due respect, when Pope Benedict XVI visited the Nazi death camp Auschwitz and asked, "Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?", he didn't ask the right...