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...focused," says Fabrice Pothier, director of the European office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "There's no bullshit. It's 'Give me some concrete, doable recommendations.'" Two days in, Rasmussen, who at 56 is just four years younger than the military alliance itself, headed to Afghanistan. A trip to Turkey and Greece followed...
...history of the Chinese in Australia, and in 1983 he changed his surname from Young to Yang in a symbolic reclamation of his identity. "I described it as a kind of coming out as Chinese," he says. "It was a big thing for me to embrace." His first trip to China was in 1989. "The people welcomed me - they said, 'You've come back, you've come back home.' It was incredibly meaningful and moving...
...episode. The opposition DPP invited him to Taiwan in order to put Ma in a spot - he'd be damned by his own people as a mainland lackey if he did not okay the visit and condemned by Beijing if he did. Ma took a gamble: he approved the trip - and bet on China's leaders appreciating his dilemma. They did. Their censure was directed solely at the DPP, with no mention of Ma whatsoever. Far from harming cross-strait relations, the Dalai Lama's visit revealed how mature those relations have become...
...What will happen if the traditional Western powers do not halt Iran’s progress in nuclear capability? The answer may lie in the bizarre story of “The Arctic Sea” and an unannounced, clandestine trip by an Israeli head of state to Moscow. Simply put, Israel has proven itself unafraid to take direct, dramatic action to keep Iran in check. If Israel will not hesitate in playing tough with a country as powerful and potentially belligerent as Russia, the West cannot assume it will hesitate to use a similar “shoot first...
...lead, finishing with a final tally of 234 points on the weekend. The regatta was won by the Jumbos from Tufts, who edged out the Connecticut College Camels by a single point.HARRY ANDERSON TROPHYThe Crimson co-ed squad’s more experienced sailors made the trip to New Haven this weekend, where they finished a respectable ninth in a field of 20 teams at the Harry Anderson Trophy.Racing in the A division, junior captain and skipper Alan Palmer, along with Charles, placed eighth. While the middle-of-the-pack finish might not have been exactly what the pair...