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...ethnic cleansing in Africa is nothing new. It's how the U.S. and the U.N. responded to the Rwandan genocide a decade ago, in which 800,000 people died. Advocacy groups like the International Crisis Group are urging action "if Darfur 2004 is not to join Rwanda 1994 as shorthand for international shame." Ten years later, "Never Again" is proving a hard promise to keep...
...have a shorthand. I trust Ron implicitly. He directed my daughter [Tracy Reiner] in Apollo...
...coalition's reduced footprint isn't supposed to compromise their ability to get at the "anti-Iraqi forces"--military shorthand for homegrown insurgents and foreign terrorists. "The enemy will still feel our breath on his neck," says Major General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the 1st Cavalry, the armored division responsible for the security of Baghdad. "We'll make damn sure the bad guys know we're still in the neighborhood...
...conflict, the two men shared certain traits, feeding a mutual cynicism. Each scorned the other as excessively ambitious. In his secret diary, or Anas, Jefferson recorded a story of Hamilton praising Julius Caesar as the greatest man in history. (The tale sounds dubious, as Hamilton invariably used Caesar as shorthand for "an evil tyrant.") Hamilton repaid the favor. In one essay he likened Jefferson to "Caesar coyly refusing the proffered diadem" and rejecting the trappings, but "tenaciously grasping the substance of imperial domination...
...June. If that can be achieved Blair will be able to claim some final vindication; but if Iraq descends into a civil war with British troops caught in the middle, it will be the end of his premiership. Either way, Iraq has now replaced Suez as the shorthand in Britain for a foreign-policy disaster. During the 1956 Suez crisis, the Americans hauled the British back from a foolhardy military adventure in the Middle East; in 2003 the Americans led the British into one. After Suez, successive British governments accepted that their international influence depended on working closely with...