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...borders, he needlessly revived deep-seated fears of yanqui military interventionism south of the border and raised the hackles of U.S. allies like Brazil and Chile. It was the kind of dismissive display that Bush was best known for in Latin America - and a gift to the anti-U.S. Latin left, whose leader, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, is galvanizing his political base at home in a difficult economy by hollering about an imminent U.S. invasion...
...Contrary to what people believe - that Manmohan Singh has been a weak Prime Minister - I would say he has shown himself as a strong [ruler]. How else could he have tackled George Bush on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal?" - M. Veerappa Moily, Congress Working Committee member, on Singh during India's national parliamentary elections (Indo-Asian News Service, April...
...graduated from The University of Detroit Jesuit High School, the prep school you profiled, one month before the apocalyptic riots of 1967 [Nov. 9]. I am most proud of the fact that U of D chose to stay in Detroit and not abandon it as the other Catholic schools did. My class continues to contribute to our namesake city in many ways. We have purchased two bricks on the world-class Detroit RiverWalk promenade, the only school that has done so. A few years ago, I moved back to downtown Detroit after retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department...
...Less than three weeks later, Obama pulled a U-turn. When Craig walked into the Oval Office on Friday, May 8, for a hastily called meeting, the normally placid Obama was visibly unhappy. "I don't like my options," the President said. Craig told the President his lawyers had concluded there was no alternative to releasing the photos. Obama sent Craig scrambling for a new way out. Three days later, Craig had found a loophole: instead of releasing the photos, Obama would buy time by fighting their release all the way to the Supreme Court...
...Military Relations Over the past 10 years, military incidents have shown the greatest potential for sending Sino-U.S. relations into an unanticipated tailspin. The U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the collision of a U.S. spy plane with a Chinese fighter near China's southern Hainan Island in 2001 both sharply increased tensions between the two sides. This March, Chinese vessels confronted a U.S. Navy surveillance ship that was surveying an area about 75 miles off Hainan, an area many nations consider international waters but China claims as part of its exclusive economic zone...