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Serbs in the northern Kosovar town of Mitrovica are not sticklers for appearances. The stained cement façades are peeling away from drab 1960s-era high-rises. Dented satellite dishes teeter on balconies. Kiosks peddling photos of local heroes like Ratko Mladic, the fugitive Bosnian Serb general indicted for war crimes, crowd out pedestrians along potholed sidewalks. But all over town there are flashes of brilliant color: red, blue and white Serbian flags fly from nearly every window, door and rusted railing...
This is the guy directly responsible for the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994, in which he branded all Democrats as untrustworthy, disloyal and un-American. Talk about writing alternative history. Days of Infamy perfectly describes Gingrich's era as a member of Congress. Bill Shick, NASHVILLE...
Still, we're far from a Manichaean showdown. Russia is too weak to wage a cold war. Outside Moscow, St. Petersburg and a handful of other cities, most Russians live in Khrushchev- and Brezhnev-era hovels. The economy is diversifying but not diversified; for now, the oil and gas markets largely decide how much money flows into the Kremlin coffers. And the military is a wreck; Lucas points out, for instance, that the navy now has just 20 seaworthy surface ships...
Hillary Clinton still believes that the realities of economic hardship can quash the politics of hope, that American voters will choose cheaper gas before inspiration, that stadium-sized crowds will never matter as much as the price of milk. In an era of tight wallets, she believes the fight of a hardscrabble realist is more powerful than the potential of a visionary...
...President Faust, for example, imagined herself at the vanguard of a new era in civil rights. “As a civil war historian in particular,” she cannot but help “think about what military service meant to African Americans.” Thus, a policy that bars the right of homosexuals openly to serve in the military is a “badge of degradation and second-class citizenship.” With such stakes, President Faust cannot fathom keeping her silence...