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...week by the man in charge of Operation Cast Lead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, has prompted a revival within the ranks of the nickname "Zig-Zag" - originally applied to Barak in reference to his skittish diplomacy as Prime Minister in 2000, ahead of the failed Camp David summit...
...sidelines. The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko just visited Havana for five days - the first Russian warship to dock there since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 - and it symbolized to many how low U.S. influence has sunk in the Caribbean. Cuba, meanwhile, was invited this month to a regional summit in Brazil from which the U.S. was excluded - a reminder that Latin Americans still see U.S. treatment of Cuba as a reflection of how the U.S. treats them...
...proud of [students'] service to the nation" in its official description of ROTC. But nowhere is the debate more pronounced than at left-leaning Columbia University. Ever since September, when both Presidential candidates came to the Manhattan campus and voiced their support for ROTC during the TIME-sponsored ServiceNation summit (John McCain's remarks incited boos while Barack Obama's elicited baffled silence), controversy over the issue has roiled the campus...
...barrel in order to sustain their exploration and costly production. To achieve that, he recommended that the cartel, which pumps 42% of the world's oil output, makes "a significant cut" in production - and urged non-Opec producers such as Russia and Azerbaijan (whose oil ministers also attended the summit) to do the same, "for the purpose of bringing stability to the market." (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...Ultimately, the immediate future of global climate-change action won't be decided in Brussels or Poznan but in Washington, D.C. - where there really is cause for hope. While President-elect Barack Obama (and his top emissaries) steered clear of the Poznan summit - understandable, since the Bush Administration's negotiating team was still in charge - at home the names of his climate and energy teams have been revealed. Lisa Jackson, a respected state official in New Jersey, will head the Environmental Protection Agency, while Carol Browner - head of the EPA under President Bill Clinton - will take a new position...