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...clarity can manifest itself in unexpected ways. Winfried Nachtwei, a German Green Party defense expert and critic of his government's policy in Afghanistan, believes nonetheless that Germany's lack of military capacity "restrains German foreign policy." The Bundestag has failed to debate the situation in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, he says, because it is nervous about feeling obliged to dispatch German troops to help out. Most Europeans acknowledge that if the current government in Kabul of Hamid Karzai is allowed to fail and the country returns to Taliban rule, the resulting instability could create new safe...
...Draghicis are hardly the only family in Romania torn apart by migration. By some estimates, up to 2.5 million Romanians have left to work abroad. Adrian Vasilescu, spokesman for the Romanian National Bank, estimates that in 2007, around 7 billion euros ($11 billion) flowed into Romania in the form of remittance sent home by migrant workers...
...Mustafa remembers his time in the war-torn city as alternating between boredom and absurdity...
...anything,” Vaillancourt said. “But the fact that we won the ECAC championship doesn’t mean anything either. This is a new season. Everybody is right back at the start.” Harvard is currently riding a hot streak, having just torn through the ECAC championship that Vaillancourt alluded to.Yet, even with this season’s success, the Crimson’s climactic fall last year is still in the back of everyone’s minds. In the first round of the NCAA tournament last season, Harvard faced Wisconsin...
...adolescents, butthere is no explanation as to what turnedthe man so bitter in the first place.Robb and Stahl deliver touching andbelievable performances, but aren’t convincingenough to overcome the weaknessesworking against them. The disparitybetween the quality of their actingand the poorly-constructed world theyinhabit leaves the viewer torn betweensympathy and boredom. By the end ofthe film, the viewer is hoping for thereturn of Joleen, not out of concern forTara and James, but out of a desire to seethe credits roll.—Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can bereached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...