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...give the people a higher priority. Seth Jones, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., says that Pakistan has become the neglected stepchild, only third or fourth in a list of U.S. strategic interests that start with Iraq and Afghanistan. "Pakistan should be No. 1," says Jones. "The most serious homeland threat to the United States from abroad comes from militant groups operating in Pakistan...
...doesn't give out much in the way of personal info. I don't even know his real name. He's 20 years old and skinny; he could pass for 16. He grew up in New York City and is currently in college somewhere. He is pleasant and very serious. "When people meet me and I'm generally pretty sociable and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised," he says. "And simultaneously disappointed." We talk in a coffee shop in downtown Manhattan. He orders a lemonade...
...seemed as if I might have a real shot at getting tapped for the vice presidency. "So far, I haven't found anything," said Mr. Pitt. "You're like the last honest man in America." Then Mr. Pitt got very serious. "Is there anything that might come out that we should know about? What can't happen here is that the nominee reads something in the paper that you didn't disclose in the vetting process." After he says this to candidates, every one of them tells him something-from false accusations from old law partners to an uncaught drunk...
Barroso would be right - if this were 2000, and not 2008. But a year after the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out an alarming case for drastic action, and a month after the U.S. Senate began serious debate on sharply cutting American carbon emissions, the G-8's fuzzy-minded statement falls far short of what's needed from the world. Despite pressure from major developing nations attending the summit (who argue that industrialized countries need to act first on global warming), the G-8 refused to set short-term emissions-cut targets...
...there are also signs that the Iraqi Prime Minister may be seriously veering from his past alignment with the U.S. Waving the stick of a timetable at the U.S. shores up his increasingly positive standing among his countrymen, one that has improved ever since March, when the Shi'ite Prime Minister led a series of bold military offensives to "impose the law" in chaotic militia-dominated cities across the country. Those actions have dispelled sentiments shared by many Iraqis that his administration is weak. "[Maliki] is very strong. He made a decision to bring back security...