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...French Defense Ministry official. "But between Kosovo and Afghanistan, we have plenty to do." Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer argues passionately for an alliance presence. "All the allies realize that the international community cannot afford to lose Iraq," he says. "We can't let that country develop into a failed state." The E.U.-U.S. relationship is also being tested over NATO involvement in Iraq. Even before the Iraq war, Europe's attention was divided between NATO and the effort to build the E.U.'s own security and defense identity. For its part, the Pentagon has preferred ad hoc coalitions...
...going to be someone else coming in,” Thomas explained. “It’s just knowing what other guys responsibilities are on the field as well as my own, then being able to read the offense, step back and see everything develop in front of me and not have tunnel vision...
Defining moment: After a stint peddling L'Oreal hair color to supermarkets in France, Chiquet spent 15 years at Gap Inc. She helped develop the Old Navy division before being named president of Banana Republic. But she has had zero experience in luxury goods...
...1970s, South Korea ran a program to develop technology to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. By 1976, it was in the final stages of buying a reprocessing plant from France when the U.S. pressured Seoul to end the program. Washington suspected Korea wouldn't merely reprocess the fuel for power generation, but was planning to use the technology to make plutonium for atomic weapons. For Kim Chul, the nuclear expert who headed the project, the reprocessing dream never died. Kim keeps the only known copy of the project blueprints on a shelf in his study. "We should own that technology," says...
...whites to deal with slavery," says former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder, who conceived the National Slavery Museum, scheduled to open in 2007. "People don't want to discuss it. 'Let's get past it,' they say. Well, I say that attitude is insulting to our history. We need to develop a conscious awareness of how far we've come...