“In a strategic sense, I don’t think Iran is in a fundamentally
different place than it was before elections, not in the way it
approaches negotiations or the way it looks at its foreign policy,”
said Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University. ...
I have a confession: I love my huge television. A couple of years ago, thanks to a very large Amazon.com
gift certificate and a very poor grasp of measurements, I adopted a
50-inch plasma. It utterly dominated my tiny living room until I
finally moved, yet even then I loved it. The vivid colors and enormous
crystal-clear picture were a worthy substitute for the cinema. Video
games were even better -- and "Blade Runner" on Blu-ray was sublime. It
ended up being a very costly purchase,… more
“We may not be able to improve competition in the short run through the exchange,” said Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation, ...
“The reason they're popular is simply because the states bear the risk, not the individual,” said Jackie Williams, who was executive director of the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority for 10 years, until June. ...
On the other hand, advocates of the proposed new strategy, like Peter Bergen, an expert on Islamic terrorism, invoke America's “obligation” to the Afghan ...
The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, is right to warn that efforts to rebuild that country depend on winning the "struggle to gain the support of the people." And few issues do more to stoke the resentment of ordinary Afghans than the tens of billions of dollars of foreign aid from which they have seen little or no benefit. They see legions of Westerners sitting in the backs of S.U.V.'s clogging the streets of Kabul and… more
Tehran's disclosure that it is building a second uranium enrichment
plant near the holy city of Qum has derailed the Obama administration's
already faltering efforts to engage with Iran. The United States will
now cling even more tightly to the futile hope that international
pressure and domestic instability will induce major changes in Iranian
decision-making.
"They are blocking off his escape hatches," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator. "They’re saying, if you can’t do the interim, then we’ll do the final status." ... Original article
Nicholas Thompson says he was often taken aback by what he learned about his grandfather.
After all, Mr. Thompson is Nitze's grandson, and he had access to all of his grandfather's personal papers and letters, as well as to his family, his closest friends, even to his opponents, the old Soviet warriors who sat opposite him at the negotiating table.
... and sometimes eliminated altogether,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which is supported by business. ...
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