Word: sumness
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Biden tried to reassure Ukrainian and Georgian leaders that better U.S. relations with Moscow could benefit their countries. "The more substantive relationship we have with Moscow, the more we can defuse the zero-sum thinking about our relations with Russia's neighbors," he said during a speech in Kiev. He also called on Yushchenko and Georgia's Saakashvili to heal rifts with their respective opposition parties and upbraided Ukraine and Georgia for the political infighting that has slowed reform...
...residents chow down on McDonald’s instead of dim sum...
...renowned modernist painter, Tyeb Mehta, 84, made history at a 2005 auction when his Mahisasura, which depicts a goddess defeating a demon, sold for nearly $1.6 million, the highest sum ever paid for the work of a living Indian artist...
...easy to see how they could be at odds on a host of other issues. Indeed, even as Rudd talks about the inevitable dawn of an Asia-Pacific century with China at its helm, he is careful not to describe the new era as a zero-sum game in which U.S. power is bound to wane. "America has a great history of reinventing itself," he says. "I'm an unapologetic supporter of the United States ... because America is an overwhelming force of good for the world." In an early sign of goodwill, in April Rudd announced that Australia would send...
...Alaska! She made her declaration on Independence Day weekend as a symbol, she says, of her new and exhilarating freedom. She's headed to a bookstore, a television set, a convention hall near you, armed with an anti-résumé. Cut loose from her obligations to her huge and awesome homeland, her message remains quintessentially Alaskan. Where she comes from - the last American frontier - the past is irrelevant, the rules are suspended, and limitations are for losers...