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...trip, Rice gave the impression that the U.S can live with this state of affairs. Indeed, Washington's relations with the three great Asian powers are excellent. From being a cold war near-ally of the Soviet Union, India has turned into a partner of the U.S., one to which Rice said Washington now offered "a decisively broader strategic relationship." Japan, where Rice gave her keynote speech of the week, has become much more than a regional friend. Japan's leaders now discuss with Washington common global objectives from poverty relief to nuclear proliferation. As for China, Rice told journalists...
...generalized sense that American-style democratic capitalism will never again face a serious challenge is one of the most troubling aspects of our current societal discourse. Today, the notion that America might one day have to confront a fully-formed, radical, and expansionist ideology such as Nazism or Soviet Communism is almost laughable. Yet if history has one clear lesson to offer us, it is this: New challenges will inevitably rise and blindness towards them is extremely dangerous...
...mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely her own. She's not so eloquent in her anger as Public Enemy or so tuneful as the Clash, but it's a pretty impressive neighborhood for a debut. Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch Born in Moscow and raised in the Bronx, Spektor sports a rare combination of classical-piano training and hip friends (she opened for the Strokes' last tour). She also has a singing style that springs from an immigrant's fascination with her second language. On Poor Little Rich...
...opened in Rotterdam. Van Anraat is alleged to have sold mustard gas and nerve gas to Saddam Hussein. The agents were used in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, in which 5,000 people died. New Allegations UKRAINE The Prosecutor General's Office said that 18 Soviet-made nuclear-capable cruise missiles were "smuggled to third countries" - reportedly China and Iran - in 2001. The new director of the SBU intelligence service, Olexander Turchinov, earlier told TIME that the defendants in the case included senior state officials, business leaders and SBU officers. Moscow Murder Bid RUSSIA Anatoly Chubais...
...Washington's birthday in 1946, after brooding alone at the Moscow embassy, Kennan summoned aides and began dictating a 5,540-word cable, divided into five sections like a Puritan sermon, that called the containment of the Soviet Union's expansionist instincts "undoubtedly the greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced." What became known as "the Long Telegram" shook up the foreign policy establishment, as did a subsequent essay he wrote for Foreign Affairs magazine. His doctrine galvanized an array of initiatives to compete with the Soviets, among them the Marshall Plan, NATO, the World Bank and Radio Free Europe...