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119861
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2012.
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In April, at an international conference in Palm Beach, I struck up a conversation with a senior adviser to ousted Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. It was barely six months after he was forced to resign in November 2011. "So what's he doing now?" I asked politely. "Oh, he's planning for his comeback," the gentleman shot back with a broad grin. "And there's no doubt he'll be back."
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119734
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2011.
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ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia-"Before we begin, I'd like to decline two questions," the National Security Adviser to Mongolia's president warns me. "One is railroads, the other is Chinese workers." With those caveats, Batchimeg Migidorj touches on the two third-rail issues that define her nation's precarious place in the world.
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113174
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2012.
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PARIS-We are eight at a long, leisurely lunch in the charming 14th arrondissement apartment just off the Place Denfert-Rocherot. Our host is a Le Monde journalist whose long career has taken him from Cambodia in the last days of the Indochina wars and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge to John Major's London and to Washington, straddling Clinton and Bush. The afternoon begins with a fabulous hard yellow cheese and a rich white wine from Catalonia down by the Pyrenees separating France from Spain where our hosts have their country cabin. The dishes are passed around, the wine glasses filled and refilled, the main course, a succulent cassoulet de canard and all the trimmings. But the centerpiece, as is the case these days when any two or more Europeans gather, is the Presidentielles-the national elections for the first new President de la Republique in five years. The first round will be held in just 11 weeks. This watershed vote comes amidst another downward spiral in a French economy already battered by the three-year global recession. These two all but inseparable subjects, fused into a complexity only the French can master, continue to mesmerize this nation that, even in the best of times, never takes its politics in stride.
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Pull up to a gas pump anywhere in Saudi Arabia, and you can fill your tank for 45 cents a gallon. The price hasn’t changed since the King dropped it from 90 cents in 2006. It’s the King who sets the price because the number has little or nothing to do with the price of oil on the world markets. It has more to do with how much it costs to lift each gallon out of the ground and refine it. Because, after all, the Kingdom owns it all.
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135135
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On Saturday, October 1, 1977, I arrived in Belgrade to take up my post as East European bureau chief of The New York Times. I’d timed my arrival to coincide with the opening of the conference of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), one of many efforts during the depths of the Cold War to facilitate dialogue between East and West—the two halves of a very much divided, and at times hostile, Europe.
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106433
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2011.
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Paris-A hot best seller in France is a curious little work that likely says more than the deepest political commentary about the state of mind in today's Europe, especially this nation that still considers itself-reality perhaps notwithstanding-the heart and soul of the continent. The book is titled Vous N'aurez Pas le Dernier Mot ( You Won't Have the Last Word), and its authors are the writer-actor Jean Piat, of the Comédie Française, and Patrick Wajsman, the founding editor of Politique Internationale. Subtitled "a lighthearted anthology of the sweetest repartées," it seems to have touched a chord this year in a Europe swept by discord, where repartée has taken to the streets-often quite violently-and parliaments are debating how best to reduce expectations.
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002393
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New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992.
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281p.Hbk
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0688092187
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 033915 | 923.2/MAR 033915 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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119879
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2013.
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Paris-As a New Year's gift to those who elected him, France's new president, François Hollande, mired in a seemingly intractable economic malaise and about to embark on a war in an old colonial territory of Francophone Africa, made an announcement, which the French daily Le Monde carried as an urgent bulletin. He would put an end to the practice of every ex-president becoming a member of the Conseil Constitutionnel, the final judicial appeal of French citizens. Beginning with himself, though not extending to his hated predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, no exiting president would have the inalienable right to a seat on France's highest court. It was a campaign promise, one of 60 that Hollande made, as French presidents are wont to make in the heat of battle but rarely expected to remember, let alone keep. But Hollande has been quite meticulous in honoring a number of them. Still, of the 60 pledges, only two had anything to do with France's hidebound judiciary that has changed little since the Napoleonic Code was established not long after the absolute monarchy was ended by the French Revolution. Even today, in a French court, a defendant who arrives there has already been judged by a juge d'instruction, who is both investigator and judge, and must prove his or her innocence. And while one of Hollande's pledges calls for "suppression of peines-plancher," or unyielding minimum sentences, even this still awaits legislative action.
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Even though the current economic crisis threatens all corners of the globe, Europe has proven particularly vulnerable. The transformation and scaling of the continent have failed to keep pace with the external forces preying on its weaknesses. World Policy Journal editor & publisher David A. Andelman examines the extent of the European crisis, its echoes abroad, and the challenges it must surmount to survive.
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2014.
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-In March 1975, in what would turn out to be the final month of the war in Cambodia, I thought it might be a nice touch to place a call to my bride of six months and wish her a happy birthday. My interpreter/fixer/photographer, Dith Pranh, advised me to book the call a week or so in advance, which I did at the PTT (Post Telegraph)-the only locale where an international call had even a prayer of going through. At the appointed time, I appeared there and, after a wait of only several hours, the operator announced that my party was on the line in New York, and I could pick up "the apparatus" in Cabin #1. I lifted the phone and there, 7,000 miles away, was a very faint voice of Susan making its way through a cloud of electronic noise, crackles, and pops. We shouted at each other for a minute or so, before we finally gave up on any meaningful communication.
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119748
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2012.
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Will McAvoy, a primetime cable news anchor and Aaron Sorkin's lead character in his new HBO primetime series "The Newsroom," pushed to the limits in the series pilot, blurts out in a public forum that the United States is no longer the world leader in any important metric. "We are seventh in literacy, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports," McAvoy shouts. "So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about." Needless to say, Sorkin's loud-mouthed anchor runs into a mess of trouble as a result of his outburst.
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2012.
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Paris-The first meal I ever had in France was in a small bistro on the rue de Caumartin just down the street from No. 37-the office that served for half a century as the Paris bureau of The New York Times. It was to this bureau that Timesmen returned as the Allies re-took Paris at the end of World War II, astonished that it was still much as they'd left it when the Nazis had first rolled into town. As for myself, my arrival took place a quarter-century later-September 7, 1969. I'd just touched down in Paris, for my first visit, on an Air India flight from New York. When I exited the subway at the Havre-Caumartin stop, the streets were as quiet as central Paris can only get on a lazy Sunday afternoon, barely a week after "le grand retour" brought the hordes back from their August vacances to the real world. The Times' bureau was shifting into high gear, churning out copy for the next day's editions. My new boss, Seymour Topping, then foreign editor, had warned bureau chief Henry Tanner that his news assistant would be pitching up there and to treat him right. So with Tanner's door closed as he crafted his story, the curmudgeonly reporter John Hess suggested I duck down the block to a little bistro and have a bite until Tanner was free to begin the process of inculcating me in the French way of life. So I did. I ordered "un hot dog" and was taken aback as they served me a long, grilled dog smothered with melted cheese. Not likely something they'd have served up at Fenway Park.
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089687
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2009.
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Post-conflict scenarios three decades ago were different than they are today. At the time of the victory of the Khmer Rouge, North Vietnamese, and Pathet Lao, America had its fill of losing battles in remote corners of the world.
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143203
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In May 2008, when I took the helm of World Policy Journal, the world was in a very different place than it is today. In terms of leadership, George W. Bush had eight months left in his final term as president. Barack Obama had all but sewed up the Democratic nomination in his battle with Hillary Clinton, and promised to present a strong challenge to the Republican ticket headed by Senator John McCain. Nicolas Sarkozy was just a year into what would turn out to be his only term as president of France. Hu Jintao was five years into his 10-year rule as president of a China, whose unparalleled growth seemed to hold no bounds.
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