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GLOBAL AGENDA
newsweek.com
Dennis Ross
The US strikes deeper in Pakistan
The missile attack on Wednesday by a United States Predator
drone on a village in North-West Frontier Province is of
extreme importance, not so much because it might have killed
members of al-Qaeda's inner council, but because it is the
first such action outside of Pakistan's semi-autonomous
tribal areas. The US is now taking the fight to the
militants, wherever they might be. The next stop is the
cities. - Syed Saleem Shahzad
(Nov 20,'08)
Stuff happens in Iraq
The United States military has the ultimate argument against
a reasonable withdrawal from Iraq. Its strength lies in that
it has nothing to do with the vicissitudes of Iraqi
politics, the relative power of Shi'ites or Sunnis, the
influence of Iran, or even the riptides of war. It is the
simple fact that logistically there is so much "stuff" in
Iraq that withdrawal would take at least three years. -
Tom Engelhardt (Nov
21,'08)
A Swedish nurse has been reported to the authorities
after telling a room full of people that one of the guests
at his party "had the smallest penis he had ever seen".
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You don't have to be superrich to live in the Mandarin
Oriental. Just lucky. Beginning Monday, the city's most
luxurious new address will begin accepting applications for
a lottery that will select tenants to live in the $300
million complex's 10 "affordable apartments."
(By Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff)
27-11-2008 19:37 MOSCOW, November 27 (RIA
Novosti) - The Russian prime minister told his
Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday
that Kiev must pay off its natural gas debt to
Russia before a 2009 supply contract can be signed.
27-11-2008 16:22 TBILISI, November 27 (RIA
Novosti) - NATO member countries should
invite Tbilisi to join the alliance at their
upcoming meeting in Brussels, the Georgian
Euro-Atlantic integration minister said on
Thursday.
ECONOMY The hunt for cash
NOT SO BULLISH “Cash cow”,
a mascot of the Frankfurt stock exchange. The question on
the minds of carmakers on both sides of the Atlantic is now
not whether the markets will provide them with cash, but
whether their governments and the EU will. REUTERS
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