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Smith also told the police that her boyfriend did not have the card key to enter Kirkland at the time of the shooting and that she had used her card to enter Kirkland House to visit a friend at the time of the incident...
...little wonder that Obama's drive to put aside old grudges and start fresh with Moscow has come up against stubborn resistance from the Kremlin in recent months. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will likely face a tough test when she arrives in Moscow for a two-day visit on March 18, because, as a senior official from the Obama Administration puts it, "We've definitely overloaded the circuits in this relationship...
...beginning. There was hope in the first few months of Obama's presidency that the bad blood from the Cold War and the George W. Bush years could be washed away with little more than a push of a button. For example, on Obama's first visit to Moscow, last July, President Dmitri Medvedev agreed to allow U.S. weapons and personnel to pass through Russian airspace en route to Afghanistan. It was a huge relief to American troops, who had been trucking most of their supplies through the death trap of Pakistan's Khyber Pass. Since it was granted without...
...Perhaps more disturbing is the return of Cold War rhetoric ahead of Clinton's visit. The most alarming exchanges have centered on a new missile shield being proposed by Obama to protect against threats from Iran and North Korea. The new shield would be built farther away from the Russian heartland, but it has still roused the same fury from Moscow, which last month renewed its threat to point tactical missiles at Europe. And in December, Putin suggested the possibility of a new arms race between the Cold War foes. (See action-figure pictures of Vladimir Putin...
...David Axelrod, President Obama's chief political adviser, on Sunday branded as an "affront" and "insulting" Israel's announcement, during Vice President Joe Biden's visit to announce a renewed peace effort, of plans to build 1,600 new housing units in the part of the Holy City conquered in 1967 and claimed by the Palestinians as their future capital. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren reportedly told diplomatic colleagues over the weekend that U.S.-Israel relations faced their worst crisis in 35 years. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...