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...strings," says Ulrike Guérot, head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. "But sometimes Berlin is deciding not to pull any strings at all now, in which case nothing happens. Germany is starting to become good at avoiding Europe in a very subtle way...
...their domestic political constituencies - really want? If it isn't, then the rest of the world can adjust its expectations accordingly. If it is, then Europeans can start the real work of public diplomacy, speaking out for their asserted virtues of tolerance, compromise and liberality, not in a condescending way, but in one that explains how the world's true dark continent in the 20th century found a path to peace. And the E.U. could work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest - ensuring that Bosnia does not slip back into conflict, working closely with Turkey to ensure...
...leadership is targeting domestic consumption as the most enduring driver of economic growth. Not only are there more Chinese with money to spend, the still fragile state of the global economy makes self-reliance an imperative. "As we stand at a new historical juncture, we must change the old way of inefficient growth and transform the current development model," Vice Premier Li Keqiang, the likely successor to Premier Wen Jiabao, declared at Davos in January...
...stank up your college roommate's underwear drawer. But the visual cues are at odds with the Steppenwolf playing on the sound system: a uniformed security guard leans by the door, while grass is displayed in neatly labeled jars under glass. Along one wall is a large, horizontal one-way window, behind which, one assumes, are eyes sharper and brighter than those of the clerks and customers...
...nonprofits. As of Feb. 8, Denver requires dispensary owners to undergo background checks, submit security plans and spend $5,000 in licensing and fees. Denver's 484 dispensaries already charge sales tax, which means that - financially, anyway - the city isn't hurting from their presence. In at least one way, they're even driving business: a dispensary security guard - an off-duty cop whose wife uses marijuana to alleviate symptoms of fibromyalgia and who declined to give his name - says he is starting a security business that specializes in protecting pot shops. "There's a niche," he says with...