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Following the failure in Geneva, there was the usual rush to gloom, the usual voices warning darkly of the risk of a beggar-my-neighbor protectionism, redolent of the 1930s. That is always possible. But it is important to remember just what we are fretting about. A trade dispute - a...
Technology and tradition don't always mix - witness several ultra-Orthodox communities' resistance to cell phones and internet use -but matchmaking turns out to be an ideal candidate for modernization. "Traditionally matchmakers only had 100 people they might set you up with," says Marc Goldmann, co-founder of SawYouAtSinai. But...
"The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another," Obama said to cheers from a crowd that Berlin police estimated at more than 200,000, which had gathered in the city's central park, the Tiergarten, and stretched toward the Brandenburg Gate, about...
A Litany of Horrors The indictment, first drawn up in 1995, says that Karadzic, who presided - often grandly - over the self-styled "Serbian Republic" in eastern and northern Bosnia during the war, is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims, as well as for a vicious...
The question now is whether Obama will be able to meet the sky-high expectations. German politicians speaking in the press have advised him against raising issues that will dampen enthusiasm, such as demanding more German soldiers to be deployed in Afghanistan - a military mission he hopes to expand. "Obama...