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…t would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions are incr...

…ards campaign of 2004. He has been a member of the Atlantic Council of the United States Working Group on U.S.–European Union Trade and Regulatory Issues and the Asia Task Force for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2009, Scher was appointed by the White Hous...

… he worked hard to rid the C.I.O. of Communist influence.” I asked whether that meant he informed on Communist with the Union. Bazelon replied, “I wouldn’t use the word informed, but he worked closely with Hoover on a common goal: to rid the C.I.O. of Communist influence.” Bazel...

…ust in case). Like Don Quixote, Europe went on its journey for all the wrong reasons, adopting a half-pregnant monetary union to support a political objective that had arguably already been achieved by 1955”. This year, a look at something just as worrying in the long run as the...

…lsbury Winthrop TERRY SCHWAKOPF | EVP: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, banking supervision MICHAEL MCADAM | CFO: Union Bank (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) SIMON MCNAMARA | CTO: RBS, ex-CIO of Standard Chartered, BNP and Deutsche Bank VINNY LINGHAM | CEO: Gyft (acquired b...

…verstating the threat of subversion from China risks causing overreactions reminiscent of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, including an anti-Chinese version of the Red Scare that would put all ethnic Chinese under a cloud of suspicion. Right now, I believe the harm we could c...

…issioner for human rights—Mary Robinson, no friend of Israel—was appalled at what she was witnessing. The Arab Lawyers’ Union distributed a booklet of anti-Semitic cartoons that could have been published by Der Sturmer. The Jerusalem Post reported Robinson’s reaction: “Waving a...

…to contemplate shaming people: Shame invites the public in on the punishment. Consider the scaffolds, scab lists during union strikes, or Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Or the proposal made by prominent conservative William F. Buckley Jr. in 1986 to tattoo people with...

….com. Event address: 80 Columbus Circle, New York. Sponsored by Buick,Clinique. Noted attendees: Gayle King, Gabrielle Union. Event web address: essence.com. Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Luncheon Social Patron Women. Graeme Armour Fashion Week Presentation. 11:00am. Spring/summe...

… borders. And it can be seen in the fraying and potential unraveling of international institutions such as the European Union, formerly a model of progressive international integration. It would be a terrible shame if the West walked away from the very international order that i...

…DE EXTENSION OF SAME- SEX MARRIAGE ‘The Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of DOMA, which defined marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife and de- fined spouse as only a person of the op- posite sex who is a husband or wife. The Supreme Court...

…untry's security. The Assad clan is trying to convince the outside world, including the United States and the European Union, that the regime's fall could lead to chaos and sectarian wars. It claims the opposition is either too HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023470

…Middle East is violent and volatile and may yet suck him in, but if he can avoid it, he'll try. This was a State of the Union address that stressed fixing America's broken house, not chasing around the world trying to fix everyone else's. The future of America isn't Cairo or Dama...

…In the first half of this year, Pres- ident Xi Jinping paid the first-ever visit of a Chinese president to the European Union's head- quarters. And last week, at the summit of Asian and European leaders in Milan, Italy, Premier Li Keqiang hosted a special dinner for Barroso and E...

…dinejad: the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Libya: On January 31“, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced the launch of a two- year civil mission to help secure Libya’s 4,000-kilometer border. The announcement wa...