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Europe's Challenges In the wake of the Georgian weekend war this summer, and amid the usual bellicose speechifying by Russian leaders, finding common ground between Russia and Europe will not be easy. But it is important to make a start, because the risk of alienating Moscow is a real and dangerous one. And as Joe Joffe argues in the accompanying essay, when talking to Russia, Europe is stronger than its behavior would often suggest...
...From the port of Mytilene, you can see the lights of the Turkish coastal town of Dikili twinkling on the horizon. Further north, where the strait between the two countries narrows to just three miles, traffickers zip immigrants across by Jet Ski. But the usual form of transport is a humble dinghy or decrepit motorboat crammed past capacity, and destined to be abandoned after the crossing - if the boat and its passengers make it. In October, in separate incidents, Greek and Turkish authorities recovered 18 bodies; the E.U. estimates that 3,000 or more people die annually attempting to slip...
...soon after graduation. O’Herin admitted that balancing school and his new marital status is no breeze, “It’s kind of hard to get my mind back on school.” After all, the blissful couple is not immune to the usual senior stresses: midterms, extra-curriculars, and job searching. But if there’s one thing they don’t have to stress about, it’s the post-grad dating scene. Ah, to be young and in love. Getting engaged? Send your proposal stories to fm.proposals@gmail.com...
...Sirius Star, at 1,000 feet long with three times the mass of a U.S. aircraft carrier, was seized 450 nautical miles out to sea, well south of the pirates' usual hunting ground in the Gulf of Aden. Its capture has experts worried that the pirates' audacity and technical capabilities have been underestimated. (See pictures of piracy in Somalia...
...Berry has been his usual self, locking down wide receivers with such efficiency that opponents rarely bother to throw in his direction anymore. Somehow he’s managed three interceptions anyway...