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...earlier this month by Palestinian militants that landed in a military base, wounding 60 Israeli soldiers. But a big assault on Gaza, said the plan's critics, could have cost Israeli lives and got troops mired there for a long time. Instead, Olmert and his defense minister settled for tougher sanctions on the coastal strip - even at the cost of raising an international outcry...
...Karamanlis's reelection also heralds a tougher stance on foreign policy issues. In nationwide televised debate that offered the most intimate glimpse of the top candidates ahead of Sunday's poll, a stern-looking Karamanlis warned he would block Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union unless a decade-long dispute over the name of the neighbouring state was resolved. The threat sparked a diplomatic tiff between Athens and Skopje since the debate, with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovksi saying he would withdraw from the U.N.-brokered name talks if Greece vetoed his country's designs to join...
...Strategic Studies in Paris. "Sarkozy and Kouchner are trying to tell them, 'Yes, it is. Believe it and fear it as much we do. Only you can prevent it.'" The French government's alarm directed not towards Tehran alone, but also towards Russia and China, whose support for tougher sanctions is viewed as vital in pressing Iran to renounce its program. But the message doesn't appear to have changed minds in Moscow, where Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov reiterated his government's position that a "bombing of Iran would be a bad move that would end with catastrophic...
...office hours will allow teaching fellows to reach more students, any resulting loss of personal interaction could make the class more challenging. “I remember from freshman year when I took CS 50 that...the personalized attention was crucial for me to get through some of the tougher problem sets,” he said. Alexandre L. G. Hugon ’11, who may take the course this fall, said that he was looking forward to the opportunity to use the new technology. “I think this is a great idea...
Getting back to everyday life is never easy after a long summer break. But few will find it tougher than the McCann family. Four and a half months after vacating their pretty Leicestershire village in the heart of England, Kate and Gerry McCann and their two-year-old twins finally quit Portugal's Algarve coast for home yesterday, leaving a list of unanswered questions behind them...