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...said she was “completely unprepared and surprised” at the speed with which Altshuler responded...
...question on everyone?s lips is: Who is Ostravak? A literary-world pro having a laugh? A genuine post-communist failure? Nobody has an answer, because Ostravak has been meticulous in keeping his identity secret. "People have a chance to rev up their imagination at a full speed," Ostravak explained in an e-mail. "Wandering through my neighborhood they look around whether it's that drunk bum leaning on the corner, or that young girl pushing a baby carriage...
...succeeded in rallying everybody in a very dramatic fashion. We were - I was on the telephone with the other five - the other four within hours of the North Korea testing and we were in the Security Council with a resolution by the end of the week. That's lightning speed. And the - what it really showed was the benefit of having worked this coalition over a period of a number of years because it came together just like that. That now with the North Koreans under sanctions but ready now to come back to the six-party talks I think...
Allan Martinson, a venture capitalist, reckons that Estonia's true innovative edge is speed. "We're fast early adopters. We're very good at getting innovation to work," he says. For example, the whole financial system leapfrogged into electronic banking in the mid-1990s, bypassing all messy dealings with checks and other paper transactions...
...powerful China not only remains undemocratic but also sustains unpleasant regimes in power, as it does today in such nations as Zimbabwe and Burma. Such behavior could make the world a colder place for freedom. Green, the former National Security Council staff member, agrees that China "wants to build speed bumps on the road to political globalization and liberalization" and is "particularly against any attempt to spread democracy." Sandschneider, the German China expert, says the Chinese "talk about peace and cooperation and development, which sounds great to European ears--but underneath is a question of brutal competition for energy...