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...Specifically, this means recognition across the continent that a resurgent Russia represents a very real and even existential threat to some members of the alliance. The recent history of Eastern and Central Europe helps to explain why the newer members of NATO—especially Poland and the Baltic states??are extremely concerned with a Russian military resurgence. The invasion of Georgia last year should serve as a chilling reminder of just how far Moscow is willing to go to preserve its national interest in the former Soviet sphere...
...since there has been much press around the world,” said Christina A. Bain, a Kennedy School program administrator. “It is interesting to look at Ireland as a genesis of ethnic conflict.” Adams also spoke of his relationship with the United States??specifically with Bill and Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and Vice-President Biden. He described how the youngest generation in Ireland has never visited a prison, something that would have been far from the norm for young people even a generation ago. “They have and deserve...
...often means tariffs on the primary exports of developing countries. “Development assistance” too often means developing economies must submit to rules that prohibit or hinder investment in their own infrastructure and people—the kind of investment responsible for the United States??s own miraculous growth in the 19th century. The national interests of developed countries have shaped the playing field from the start...
There is little doubt that the United States??and much of the rest of the world—is facing an economic and financial crisis of historic proportions. In the fourth quarter of 2008, the American economy shrank by 6.2 percent, and last month the official unemployment rate reached 8.1 percent, a figure not seen in a quarter-century. Nor has the Obama administration been idle. On Feb. 17, the president signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which calls for the government to spend $789 billion over the next two years in an attempt...
Subscriptions to pornography Web sites are slightly more common in traditionally conservative “red states?? than in more democratic “blue states,” a Harvard Business School study reported this week. Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, a professor at the Harvard Business School who conducted the study, found a statistically significant correlation between porn subscription rates and residency in states which have passed conservative legislation on sexuality. Higher subscription rates were also present in states in which people were likely to agree with statements such...