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...first Games since Helsinki in 1952, when the USSR first competed at the Summer Olympics, that Russia will fail to come first or second in the gold medal table in a non-boycotted Games. Some of the decline can be attributed to the end of the Soviet-era sports system, which poured almost unlimited finances - not to mention drugs - into athletics in Eastern Europe. By contrast, Australia grabbed 17 golds through Saturday - one more than it won at home in Sydney - and 49 medals overall. And a resurgent Japan won 15 golds through Saturday, an astonishing three times its tally...
...alone, 800 French Jews immigrated. An Israeli university study recently predicted 30,000 will eventually make the switch. And they're being welcomed by an Israeli government facing demographic challenges from the region's Palestinians. In the 1990s, more than 1.2 million people emigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union - a huge boost to a nation with 6.5 million citizens, fewer than Paris. But since Russian immigration dried up, Israeli officials have switched their focus to France. Like most French emigrants to Israel, the Zerahs are Sephardic Jews, whose families went to France from North Africa; Marc Zerah...
...this unique relationship take form, as I was with Bush in Beijing in 1974-75. There was much to be done. Bush was still head of the U.S. Liaison Office in 1975 when Henry Kissinger brought the first proposal to the Chinese (which I drafted) for active cooperation against Soviet weapons of mass destruction using Chinese territory and personnel and U.S. technology and management. It worked...
...both reflected in speech and character the nature of their homes. They were both devoted to their wives and children, and both fought bravely in war. With the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Bretton Woods international financial institutions, and aid to Greece and Turkey, Truman saved Europe from the Soviet Union and sowed the seeds that eventually brought down the Soviet Empire. Deng's economic reform of 1978, coupled with his persistence and leadership, brought China out of the doldrums of the Cultural Revolution and a stifling communist economic policy and into the modern world. And Deng, like Truman, helped undo...
...becoming Russia's new oligarchs. He won the new job after 14 years of loyal service to Putin. A 1984 graduate of Leningrad University in French and Portuguese, Sechin started his career as a translator in Africa. The Russian media alleged that he had kgb ties. A former Soviet army officer who knew him well in 1987 during the civil war in Angola describes him as "one real cool guy. Taciturn, withdrawn, personally honest, reliable and accessible. A guy to be trusted." That's certainly how Putin sees him. Sechin first met the future President in 1990 on an official...