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...tuberculosis survivors watched their stories told on film for the first time yesterday evening in Harvard Hall at a test screening of a documentary about the 20th-century tuberculosis epidemic...
...bridled at President George W. Bush, but his grating unilateralism gave them an alibi for inaction, says Daniel Korski, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. That excuse will no longer fly with Obama, Korski says. "Afghanistan will be viewed in Washington as a litmus test of whether Europeans should be taken seriously as strategic partners," he says. "It will be the issue that pushes them to take more responsibility for global problems themselves...
...transition provides an early glimpse of how the Obama team will conduct itself in power - and a test of how much change it really will bring to Washington. As the cascade of crises grows - the collapse of General Motors being the latest - the President-elect won't have time to settle in before making big decisions. In a real sense, the moves Obama makes in the next six weeks may help define what kind of President he will be. The appointments he makes, the way he engineers his government, how fast he gets everything in place - each of those things...
...question has been put to an early test: The day after Obama's election, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev publicly threatened to deploy missiles near the borders of two NATO allies to counter the Bush Administration's plans to install antimissile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russian announcement, rolled out during an elaborate ceremony, was timed to put one of the most contentious issues between Moscow and Washington on Obama's table right away. Obama and his advisers took it as an intentional provocation aimed at testing the President-elect...
...fact, Obama's biggest challenge lies not in the tone he takes with the Russians but in the substantive policy choices he makes. While Medvedev may in part have been testing whether he can fluster Obama, he's more interested in probing the Democrat's ambiguous position on missile defense. And in that regard, Obama faced another test near the time of the Medvedev phone call...