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…hortly after the leak, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced a package of sanctions against Israel. Turkey first downgraded its diplomatic ties with Israel, and the minister also declared that Turkey would take appropriate measures for safe navigation on the high sea...

…anded the overall size of the legalized cannabis market, doubling the size of the market in each of these states in the first full calendar year after implementa- tion. In addition, the percentage of the total market attributable to recreational consumers increased quickly. This...

…y he viewed me as the natural next-in-line. But I still felt hesitant. “T want you to consider two things,” I said. The first was a formal decision that Dan would have only a single deputy during his time as chief-of-staff. He said yes to that. Yet the second request was going to...

challenge to convince the Iranians that we’re quite serious about the use of force,” he said. “In the first term, the administration didn’t always speak with one voice on this issue. So what Hagel says can make a difference.” Despite his poorly receieved performance at his conf...

…orce was now ordered to mount an attack that would bring them within striking distance of the Beirut- Damasus road. The first skirmish came in the hilltop town of Jezzin, still barely within the 40-kilometer zone. The Syrians had a commando force and tanks in the town. An Israeli...

…ge yellow fake flower on his lapel. Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick, who created Gordon Gekko's rich slick look in the first film, is ecstatic with the extras I invited. Oliver is shooting a scene with Josh Brolin (the star of Stone’s “W’’). His character Bretton (never Bret) J...

…dants who can arrange a meeting. “ he recounted in Wired. After my dinner with Stone, I hoped to find a quicker route. First, I was advised that I needed a Moscow “fixer,” the curious term that journalists commonly use to describe a local intermediary who arranges appointments i...

…er. Curiously, while it was primarily young men and women who carried the revolution through its initial thrust and its first major victory, they have since been succeeded by much older people, some well into their 80s. Mohamed El-Baradei may merit a place among the ranks of HOU...

…ize-fits-all foreign policy wouldn’t work. Doctrines, they felt, were for the doctrinaire. Hillary had been one of the first in the administration to privately raise the issue of a no-fly zone. But she retreated when her main ally in the Cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert Gates,...

…the Christian commitment to creating a caring community, called for the gold standard with respect to prevention in the first place, and effective response if prevention safeguards failed. Explosion Ill As the old saying goes, “there are usually two sides to the story.” Pepper...

…s a deeper problem as well. At the start of the conflict, Begin had declared, boastfully almost, that this was Israel’s first “war of choice.” That wasn’t true. Both 1956 and 1967 were wars of choice. Yet those preemptive attacks, especially in the Six-Day War, were in response t...

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…, which for years had been a feckless military force. Largely unnoticed in Western commentary was that the GCC, for the first time in its history, mounted a relatively effective military intervention. Bahrain today is for all intents and purposes a province of Saudi Arabia, even...

…he research area, gradually becomes detailed mechanistic understanding with the eventual goal being derivation from the first principles of physics. The painful truth is that that in spite of evocative claims made to the contrary in the 1990-2000 Decade of the Brain, this level o...

…d me to get ready to fly not into Uganda, but to Nairobi. I'd been re-assigned to accompany a Mossad team to Kenya. Our first task would be to get the answers to the questions Rabin had asked us. Then, we would be in charge of arranging for the Kenyans to allow us to refuel the C...