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...Churchill's old saw about russia being a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma continues to have force now that the Iron Curtain has long since been pulled back. Moscow's more muscular approach to the world has roots in its domestic politics. And there, a contradictory welter of good and bad developments contend for dominance, giving the Kremlin cause for both expansive confidence and prickly insecurity. The economy is booming. Since 1999, growth averaging more than 6% a year has produced a cumulative expansion of 65%. High oil prices are the main reason. Still, says Roderic Lyne...
...match lead. “We didn’t pass the ball,” Ridolfi said. “They served the ball aggressively, and we didn’t play well enough to get it done.” In game three, Harvard limited Paludo and Welter early and took several one-point leads. But the two Brazilian sophomores recovered and powered NJIT back ahead. Aided by a series of Crimson service errors, the Highlanders coasted to 30-22 victory and completed the sweep. And with that, the Harvard careers of Freese, McKiernan, and senior outside hitter...
...block to pay for the $3 billion cut is the NuSTAR satellite, which would have used x-ray detection to find black holes, galactic nuclei and supernovae; the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which, as its name suggests, would hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars; and a welter of small craft known as the Explorers-discount ships designed mostly by university groups and launched in cooperation with NASA. Narrowly focused and cheap to fly, they have in the past paid big scientific dividends on very little investment...
...venturing how the U.S. military is likely to be waging war in years to come. But, defense officials say, it continues to pump billions of dollars into weapons of dubious utility in the war on terror-like the Army's $161 billion Future Combat Systems. The Army says this welter of weapons-tanks and helicopters, both manned and unmanned, all bound together with computer data links-will let soldiers "move, shoot and communicate better than ever before." But at a time when the military is still belatedly buying sufficient armor for its Humvees and troops on the ground in Iraq...
...their animosity toward their political élite, and their fears about how globalization might gnaw away at their social-welfare system. Dutch voters rammed home an even more resounding no on the constitution three days later, leaving the project effectively dead and the Union bound to slalom through a welter of existing treaties for at least another couple of years. THE VANISHING BRITISH PRESIDENCY As Britain took over the rotating E.U. presidency last summer, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to chart "a new economic direction" to help Europe "meet the challenge of globalization." Little evidence of that now: especially after...