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...thought we could’ve won, and we should’ve won,” Nick says. “You wake up this morning, and you’re like, ‘Well. That sucks.’” He laughs...
...past. Famed former Czech President Vaclav Havel, who met with Obama afterward, warned him of the risks of becoming so popular as to create impossible expectations. Yet, for now, Obama has exceeded the expectations of yet another foreign nation, leaving even President Vaclav Klaus somewhat overwhelmed in his wake. Klaus told the media the speech was not the “cosmopolitan speech” he had expected, in which Obama would exploit his presence in Prague to make a general message—instead, Klaus praised the talk as “unexpectedly Prague and unexpectedly Czech...
...bomb coincided with a decision by the Karzai government, concerned about the environmental impact of clear-cutting, to ban timber exports outright. The valley's population lost its only source of income. Smuggling rings took over, bringing corruption in their wake. As it has elsewhere in Afghanistan, the national Taliban movement co-opted local grievances. (Taliban, these days, no longer refers just to the regime that once ruled the country; the word has become synonymous with any number of antigovernment forces.) Tribal elders say the fight in the Korengal is directed and funded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord...
...into boxes of male or female.” Echoing this sentiment, Women’s Center Director Susan B. Marine said she hoped students would learn that gender is something that can be playful. Gender “is not just what we all wake up with, it’s fun and creative. I hope workshops like these let people explore things that sometimes aren’t typically encouraged,” she said. Morgan L. Haven-Tietze ’10 said she attended the workshop for fun and partially out of curiosity. Haven-Tietze...
...Washington stood shoulder to shoulder with its allies and declared that the rocket launch was a direct violation of U.N. resolutions 1718 and 1695, which applied sanctions against Pyongyang in the wake of its 2006 missile and nuclear tests and whose language is unequivocal in its opposition to further ballistic-missile tests. But news accounts say that some Security Council members are not convinced the Sunday launch violated the resolutions, presumably because the payload was a satellite, not a weapon. That's the position in both Beijing and Moscow, diplomatic sources tell TIME. Indeed, after the talks...