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H1 Washington Post Bush Taps Troop Boost Skeptic as 'War Czar' In newly created position, Army Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute will coordinate often disjointed military and civilian operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

News Analysis: Reality Overtakes the Illusion of Unity in Gaza

FT A new era for Iraq oilAs the first post-Saddam oil field comes on stream in Iraq, who is pumping the oil, and what do the local Kurds think? Javier Blas, correspondent for Expansión, presents a special interactive slideshow on an new era in Iraq oil

IHT France: The end of Gaullism? By IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Sarkozy will not fundamentally change France's foreign policy.

Time to back off: Russian-European relations By SERGEI A. KARAGANOV While Russia and the EU lose time on misguided rivalries, both are facing a long-term weakening of their positions.

Kosovo: No Good Alternatives to the Ahtisaari Plan International Crisis Group
debate on Kosovo’s future status has reached a crucial point. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has begun to consider elements of a draft resolution to determine the entity’s future, which could be put to a vote in the coming weeks.

Christian Science Monitor

Israel shows new openness to Saudi peace plan In Jordan, the Israeli prime minister said he was ready to discuss the Arab Peace Initiative with Mideast neighbors

Young Muslims in Cairo transform the hijab The head covering may be a sign of piety - but it can also be a declaration of identity and fashion sense.

Guardian Bush doesn't want detente. He wants to attack Iran Alain Gresh: The US has swept aside repeated overtures from Tehran. Is it any wonder if the Islamic Republic now wants the bomb?

Power Struggle in Afghanistan By: Christian Neef | Der Spiegel
In Afghanistan, an odd, new alliance of Mujahedeen, old communists, and royalists is threatening President Hamid Karzai's leadership. But can the motley crew solve the country's problems?

Running Out of Time in Iraq By: David Ignatius | The Washington Post The Iraqi center must somehow become strong and united enough to fend off the ruthless killers on the wings.

Washington Times U.S. urges sanctions against Tehran

WSJ Was Osama Right? Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won't change their view. By BERNARD LEWIS

H2 First European Quality of Life Survey: Quality of life in Turkey
Source: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EuroFound) Full Report (PDF; 973 KB) Never before has a candidate country as unique and diverse as Turkey raised such interesting challenges for the EU. A country of contrasts, Turkey embraces many anomalies which are increasingly being placed under the spotlight, given its EU candidacy status. A nationalist secular state, Turkey has a predominantly Muslim population; formerly a mainly rural country, its population has shifted to a largely urban one; despite having a population size second only to that of Germany among the EU Member States, Turkey’s income per capita is lower than any of the EU countries; and notwithstanding the forward-looking vision of the republic’s founder, a significant majority of women in Turkey still do not participate in paid employment.

NYT Turkish City Counters Fear of Islam’s ReachThe Turkish political party with a past in Islamic politics has had a moderating influence on Konya.

FT WORLD NEWS: Arab Islamists view Turkey crisis as test for democracy

Azerbaijan coup charges raise oil supply doubts

WORLD NEWS IRAQI KURDS AND OIL: Desert could yield 100bn barrels

Norwegian company to pump Iraqi oil

BBC New battleground
Rivals lock horns in Turkey for control of parliament

Ambassador Wilson Addresses Conference on Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism

US and Turkey Unveil New Phase of Collaboration on F-16s Ambassador Wilson's Remarks

La Times Democracy for Turkey — and U.S.

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

FT Financial Times WORLD NEWS IRAQI KURDS AND OIL: Desert could yield 100bn barrels

WORLD NEWS: Muslim force proposed for Iraq

Iraq extends constitution review deadline

WORLD NEWS: Military losses in Iraq require US diplomatic success in Iran

COMMENT: Why it takes small groups to solve global problems We should adopt a more contingent approach to world economic problems through groups brought together issue by issue, writes Raghuram Rajan.

COMMENT: Globalisation's losers need support To have an open economy we may need a more protective one than we have had in the recent past. It is a trade-off, write Danny Leipziger and Michael Spence

COMMENT: Pakistan must seek unity in the face of extremism After 50 years, it is time to create a firmer and more institutionalised civilian-military relationship, writes Anatol Lieven.

COMMENT: China's great walls cannot keep out the world forever Nowhere was it harder to come to terms with the impact of western power, ideas and technology than in the world’s longest-lived imperial civilisation, writes Martin Wolf

COMMENT: Second world war nostalgia led America astray in Iraq In the decade before September 11 2001, the US had become increasingly entranced by the era of Roosevelt and Churchill, writes Gideon Rachman.

A new era for Iraq oil

ANALYSIS: Awkward embrace How disputes are exposing the limits of German 'Ostpolitik' -Energy dependence on Russia makes it difficult for Angela Merkel to honour her country’s pledges to new EU members at odds with the Kremlin.

H3

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Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; Friend or Faux? y OLIVIER ROY Certainly, Mr. Sarkozy is pro-American and anti-bureaucracy and has no problem with hobnobbing with the rich. He also repeatedly claims that he will make a clear break with Mr. Chirac’s policies. But feelings and gestures don’t make a policy. And there is no neoconservative or Thatcherist revolution in sight for France.

Inspectors Cite Big Gain by Iran on Nuclear Fuel

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Failing by Example While the Bush team has been trying to limit de-Baathification in Baghdad, it was carrying out its own de-Democratization in the Justice Department.

MAUREEN DOWD Loving, Fighting, Sulking, Dancing, Betraying Trying to fathom what is going on with power couples in France is like watching a French movie — scenes brimming with emotion and ambiguity

H5 Washington Post Bush Taps Troop Boost Skeptic as 'War Czar' In newly created position, Army Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute will coordinate often disjointed military and civilian operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Deadly Fighting Resumes Between Hamas and Fatah

Running Out of Time in Iraq By: David Ignatius | The Washington Post
The Iraqi center must somehow become strong and united enough to fend off the ruthless killers on the wings.

Tehran Both Warns And Reassures U.S. By: Robin Wright

Sparks Fly at 2nd GOP Debate Presidential candidates poke at rivals over 9/11, abortion, "flip-flopping" and use of torture.

Ashcroft Pressured on Wiretaps NSA's domestic spying continued for several weeks without Justice approval, former official says.

White House Shifts on Wolfowitz Bush administration signals willingness to replace World Bank president if he is not fired from post. Paul Wolfowitz's Statement (PDF) | Exhibits (PDF)

Rev. Jerry Falwell Dies at 73

For New Generation of Evangelicals, Falwell Was Old News

Putin, Rice Resolve to Tone Down Harsh Rhetoric

U.S. Aims to Establish International Tribunal in Hariri Assassination

World's Biggest U.S. Embassy May Not Be Quite Big Enough

What Offshoring Wave?

By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A15

Remember the great "offshoring" debate?

Editorial World-Class Mess

No one's looking good at the World Bank.

The Riddle That is Blair By: Anne Applebaum | The Washington Post
I am convinced that the real reason people in Britain and elsewhere can't stop talking about Blair has nothing to do with politics at all. The problem is deeper: Fundamentally, the man's character is a riddle.

H6 Guardian Bush doesn't want detente. He wants to attack Iran Alain Gresh: The US has swept aside repeated overtures from Tehran. Is it any wonder if the Islamic Republic now wants the bomb?

Hotel blast kills 25 in Pakistan
Suicide bomber leaves warning of more attacks.

Leader General unrest Not a day goes by without more trouble for Pakistan's president-general Pervez Musharraf.

The Clock is Ticking By: Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
After almost eight years of rule Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, is fast shedding friends at home and abroad. Is his time running out?

Washington's worldwide woes

Simon Tisdall May 15 07, 10:30pm: George Bush's approval rating is at an all-time low, and this is reflected in declining US power across the globe.

Sixteen die in latest Gaza factional battles
Hamas gunmen raid a major crossing point in the Gaza Strip killing eight men from a rival Fatah security force.

Lawless in Gaza Rory McCarthy May 15 07, 09:00pm: Newspaper headlines can barely capture the desperate reality of Palestinian life on the ground.

Arabic under fire Brian Whitaker May 15 07, 09:30pm: A child on Hamas TV talked of annihilating the Jews ... or did she?

Wolfowitz under fire from Europe
European governments to push ahead with vote of no confidence in embattled World Bank president.
Leader: overdrawn at the bank

The terrorist Bush isn't after

Stephen Kinzer: Luis Posada Carriles is a terrorist - but an anti-Castro one, so as far as America is concerned he's all right.

The seal of approval

William Hague: The decision to go to war requires democratic legitimacy - so we must strengthen parliament's ability to challenge the executive on this matter.

The arrogance of empire

Neil Clark May 15 07, 08:30pm: Imgine a coalition of East European countries bombing Britain after it refused to withdraw its troops from Northern Ireland ...

A million road deaths every year? It's just the price of doing business
George Monbiot: The world's most neglected public health issue needs a champion, but let it not be the global motor industry.

A plan to bury democracy
Tristram Hunt: Mandarins are poised to ruin urban generation - and with it chances of political re-engagement.

H7 Washington Times U.S. urges sanctions against Tehran

By David R. SandsThe United States yesterday called for tough international action against Iran after reports that international inspectors have concluded Tehran has made major technical strides in recent days toward processing nuclear fuel -- material that can power a reactor or an atomic bomb.

Tehran's cheating and CIA spin On Sunday, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials inspected Iran's main nuclear facility at Natanz and concluded Iran is producing fuel suitable for nuclear reactors.

US News The Great Circle of Enmity - Fouad Ajami

Helping the Free Trade Losers By: Etienne Wasmer and Jakob Von Weizsacker | The Japan Times
If the recently established European Globalization Adjustment fund is effective in sharing the benefits of globalization with the losers, its benefits would far outweigh the costs.

Recent/Updated CRS Reports: International Relations

Interventionism's Last Hold-Out By: Tara McKelvey | The American Prospect
The Iraqi exile who convinced many liberal interventionists to support the war now stands alone in saying invasion was the right decision

GAO 15 May 2007 Rebuilding Iraq: Integrated Strategic Plan Needed to Help Restore Iraq’s Oil and Electricity Sectors

BBC Wolfowitz in final plea for job

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz meets the bank's executive board as he fights for his job.

White House stands by Wolfowitz

Wolfowitz and World Bank: Q&A

Profile: Paul Wolfowitz

H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq

Power Struggle in Afghanistan By: Christian Neef | Der Spiegel
In Afghanistan, an odd, new alliance of Mujahedeen, old communists, and royalists is threatening President Hamid Karzai's leadership. But can the motley crew solve the country's problems?

British 'Hold Talks with Sunni Rebel Leaders'

Iraqi Shi'ite Cleric Gains Sway in Iran –

Arab Journalists Are Under More Than One Kind of Fire By: Daoud Kuttab | The Daily Star
Being an independent journalist in the Arab world is not a very safe profession. If you are working in the two most media-productive areas in the Arab world (Iraq and Palestine) you are constantly in very direct danger.

Media Attention Deficit Disorder By: Calev Ben-David | The Jerusalem Post
Ever hear of Anwar al-Bunni? It wouldn't be surprising if you hadn't. Syria's top civil-rights activist has received precious little media attention over the years - even after being sentenced to five years imprisonment last month for promoting a declaration that called on Damascus to improve ties with neighboring Lebanon and respect its independence.

The Arab Lobby Grows By: David Forman | The Jerusalem Post The religious demographics in the United States are changing. American Muslims now almost outnumber American Jews. The rapid growth in the number of Muslims is proportionally matched by the rapid decline of Jewishly identified Americans.

H9 Ha’aretz –

BBC Fresh killings shatter Gaza truce At least 13 people are killed in Gaza gun battles, including five detained Hamas men shot by their own side.

Palestinian rivals: Fatah & Hamas

Gaza City viewpoint

Palestinians under rule of the gun

Blair of Arabia?
Jeremy Bowen on the PM's potential as Middle East mediator

Anarchy Wins in Gaza - Danny Rubinstein

Ynet Mossad: Talks with Syria Could Lead to War

Daily Alert.org - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel –

At Least 8 Dead in Hamas Attack on Abbas' Presidential Guard

Time Gaza on the Verge of Civil War

No Right of Return, But the Refugee Problem Must Be Solved - Amos Oz

Fatah: We've Lost the Battle for Jerusalem - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)

Le Figaro UNIFIL Caught Between Israel and Hizbullah: A Burning Issue for Nicolas Sarkozy

Israel Shocked by Sarkozy's Pick for French Foreign Minister -

Study: Anti-Semitism on Rise in Parts of Europe

Movement and Access Restrictions in the West Bank: Uncertainty and Inefficiency in the Palestinian Economy (PDF; 843 KB)
Source: World Bank Technical Team

The Malaise of Israeli Democracy By: Sam Hardy | New Statesman
Rape charges against Israel’s Head of State, and bribery allegations against Ehud Olmert - is Israel's political system "weak and malfunctioning"?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Israel shows new openness to Saudi peace plan In Jordan, the Israeli prime minister said he was ready to discuss the Arab Peace Initiative with Mideast neighbors

Young Muslims in Cairo transform the hijab The head covering may be a sign of piety - but it can also be a declaration of identity and fashion sense.

An oil windfall for Azerbaijan's schools Armed with $230 billion in oil revenues, policymakers hope better education will reverse Azerbaijan's corrupt history.

Hughes: Advancing democracy in the Arab world

ASIA

The Indian Commonwealth By: Ruchir Sharma | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Winston Churchill's rather dim view of India has been systemically discredited over time, but his statement that "India is just a geographical term with no more a political personality than Europe" seems surprisingly relevant today.

H11 IHT France: The end of Gaullism? By IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Sarkozy will not fundamentally change France's foreign policy.

Time to back off: Russian-European relations By SERGEI A. KARAGANOV
While Russia and the EU lose time on misguided rivalries, both are facing a long-term weakening of their positions.

Thought vs. feeling in religion By JAMES CARROLL / The Boston Globe When it comes to emotional religion, the cerebral Benedict is the skeptic-in-chief.

Politicus: Europe must find way to handle a harsher Russia

EUROPE European press review

Europe-U.S. alliance shifts

By Claude Salhani

Londonistan Calling By: Christopher Hitchens | Vanity Fair
The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation?

The Limits of Sarko-Power By: Irwin M. Stelzer | The Weekly Standard
Tony Blair thinks he has a soul mate in Nicolas Sarkozy. So does George W. Bush. Which is understandable. Anyone would be a relief after the Anglo-Saxon-hating Jacques Chirac. But it would be unwise to assume that France will now sign on to the economic policy goals that Great Britain and the United States share.

Old Divides Plague Bosnia By: Christine Spolar | The Chicago Tribune
Twelve years after the Dayton peace accords ended a bloody sectarian war, cracks in Bosnia-Herzegovina's fragile foundation are showing -- and growing wider.

EU States Forge Defence Links on Military Research By: Lucia Kubasova | EU Observer EU defence ministers have taken a step towards joint planning on defence expenditure and pooling resources to invest in technologies and military materials. The initiative has been conducted by member states rather than the European Commission with national governments keen to protect their sovereignty in the area.

BBC Success story
Ireland and Europe have both profited from their relationship

French soap
Paris crackles with rumour about the new first couple

Scandals lie in wait as Chirac bids adieu · Retiring French president seeks role as peacemaker
· Corruption allegations diminish mixed legacy

Danish muslim stands for election
Parliamentary candidate, 25, finds herself at centre of controversy.

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Boston Globe Being cool with Putin

Fixing U.S.-Russia Relationship By: Clifford Kupchan | The Boston Globe
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faces a daunting challenge in today's meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Her immediate goal will be to alleviate Russian opposition to US ballistic missile defense deployments, but she will face a tough audience on this and many other issues.

Russia's Succession Crisis By: Leon Aron | The Wall Stree Journal
While Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Moscow for talks, she might see for herself the reason for the increasingly tense relations between the two countries, and the increasingly harsh climate inside: the jitters that next year's presidential succession is already generating in the Kremlin.

Why Modern Russia is a State of Denial By: Boris Berezovsky | The Daily Telegraph
There are several unquestionable truths that were passed on to the majority of Soviet citizens from their parents. Some were destroyed by the reality of life, but one remained intact and holy: that Soviet soldiers liberated the world from the Nazi plague. That is my belief as well. But on the other hand. . .

Who Liberates the Liberators? By: Cathy Young | Reason
The latest bad news to come from Vladimir Putin's Russia is the standoff between Russia and Estonia over the relocation of a monument to Soviet soldiers in Tallinn, the Estonian capital. The diplomatic crisis reflects several troubling issues, from the Putin government's neo-imperial mentality toward the former Soviet republics, to its alliance with freelance extremist thugs, to its embrace of Russia's Soviet past.

'Nobody is Untouchable' By: Bret Stephens | The Wall Street Journal
Karinna Moskalenko is Russia's most distinguished human-rights lawyer. Vladimir Putin wants her disbarred. Ms. Moskalenko, 53, is the founder of the Moscow-based International Protection Center. For more than a decade, she has been arguing cases before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to whose judgments Russia has been legally bound ever since it incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights in its 1993 Constitution

BBC No breakthrough
Russia and the US define their differences but fail to settle them

H13 The Times Wolfowitz on brink as White House deserts him

Paul Wolfowitz’s World Bank future is hanging in the balance after the White House said that 'all options are on the table'

Leader Failing Pakistan

The mobs on the street are a threat beyond the country’s borders

Gaza violence spirals with Fatah killings

Comment: Palestinian Government 'pointless'

Parting of the ways brings anxiety to US Tony Blair arrives in Washington on his final visit as Prime Minister with a tangible legacy of his extraordinarily intense alliance with President...

Analysis: Falwell's death is the end of an era

Wall Street Journal

H14 Financial Times WORLD NEWS IRAQI KURDS AND OIL: Desert could yield 100bn barrels

WORLD NEWS: Muslim force proposed for Iraq

Iraq extends constitution review deadline The committee in charge of reviewing Iraq’s constitution has asked for a weeklong extension to complete its work - an indication that the legislature is having difficulty meeting self-imposed deadlines set in May.

WORLD NEWS: Military losses in Iraq require US diplomatic success in Iran

COMMENT: Why it takes small groups to solve global problems We should adopt a more contingent approach to world economic problems through groups brought together issue by issue, writes Raghuram Rajan.

COMMENT: Globalisation's losers need support To have an open economy we may need a more protective one than we have had in the recent past. It is a trade-off, write Danny Leipziger and Michael Spence

COMMENT: Pakistan must seek unity in the face of extremism After 50 years, it is time to create a firmer and more institutionalised civilian-military relationship, writes Anatol Lieven.

COMMENT: China's great walls cannot keep out the world forever Nowhere was it harder to come to terms with the impact of western power, ideas and technology than in the world’s longest-lived imperial civilisation, writes Martin Wolf

COMMENT: Second world war nostalgia led America astray in Iraq In the decade before September 11 2001, the US had become increasingly entranced by the era of Roosevelt and Churchill, writes Gideon Rachman.

A new era for Iraq oil

ANALYSIS: Awkward embrace How disputes are exposing the limits of German 'Ostpolitik' -Energy dependence on Russia makes it difficult for Angela Merkel to honour her country’s pledges to new EU members at odds with the Kremlin.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: In search of closer EU-Russia links

WORLD NEWS: Moscow agrees to tone down anti-US rhetoric

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: The will to power How ruthlessness and resilience carried Sarkozy to the Elysée -The UMP leader has profited from his ability to learn from defeat, but his decision to reach out to Le Pen supporters could complicate his task as president.

Pentagon insider named Iraq war ‘tsar’Douglas Lute, a relatively unknown three-star lieutenant-general, was appointed war “tsar” to manage Iraq and Afghanistan

Merkel admits deep climate rift with US

Editorial The EU needs to come clean about its satellite plans The plans for the Galileo satellite navigation system are behind schedule and sorely lacking in private sector commitment

Blair and his successor must agree an EU line together Whatever the formal position, it would be absurd if Mr Blair agreed a deal that Mr Brown was able to disown a just few days later.

COMMENT: Brown's chance to create a ministry of science Competition from the Asian giants means we need industrial policy based on innovation, technology and science, writes Peter Cotgreave.

COMMENT: We need an International Carbon Fund The Keynesian answer to climate change is to create an institution – like the IMF – to let market forces find a solution, say John Browne and Nick Butler.

COMMENT: Business is blind to the risks of a shared tax system How could we bring in urgent tax changes if we had the juggernaut of one tax base throughout the European Union, asks Turlough O’Sullivan

Serbia looks forward to EU talks

H15 Los Angeles Times Same war, different reasons

Ronald Brownstein: Blair's internationalism led him to support Bush.

Blair's 'special relationship'

By Ian Kershaw

Unconditionally supporting Bush's wars isn't the stuff that built the storied transatlantic alliance.

Editorial

Dead, but not gone

By Zev Chafets

Falwell stood out among fellow evangelists, ensuring a legacy that won't soon be forgotten.

H16 American Politics Republican candidates vow to cut taxes, spending

The Democrats' Trade Troubles By: Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek
For the past 50 years America has outsourced manufacturing jobs—and yet the economy and personal income have kept growing robustly.

Three-party presidential freak show By Tony Blankley Michael Bloomberg to join the race

Initial warrantless eavesdropping program deemed illegal by the Justice Department

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec

Pundits think Rudy Giuliani's cross-dressing, gay-roommating, Planned Parenthood-donating past will doom his presidential campaign. But is he pointing toward the future of the Republican Party? How America's mayor scrapped his way to the top of the least popular fraternity on his college campus: An excerpt from America's Mayor, America's President? The Strange Career of Rudy Giuliani. Mr. Home-Wrecker Goes to Washington: Why shouldn't we judge Rudy by his disastrous home life? Six years ago, Judi Giuliani was the other woman. Today, she’s the ostentatiously adoring wife of the front-runner for the Republican nomination.

Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

BBC On God's Earth
How the issue of global warming divides US evangelicals

H17 Daily Telegraph 'Attack Iran before it gets the bomb'

Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America's former ambassador to the United Nations has said.

N Korea tests long-range missiles

Weapon that could hit US launched on Iranian soil.

Harsh questions for defence ministers

Before we undertake more military interventions, we must ask questions about our planning for the Iraq war and its aftermath, writes Alan Mallinson.

So much to ask Gordon, so little time

Andrew Marr's mobile phone is jiggling with calls from friends with a smorgasbord of questions for Gordon Brown.

Extremism least of Pakistan's problems

Pakistan's secular forces, not its Islamic extremists, appear to be intent on tearing up the country, writes Isambard Wilkinson.

H18 Independent

Hamas raid on Fatah base leaves 11 dead as Gaza tensions rise

Wolfowitz on the brink as support ebbs away

Whatever happened to Ahmed Chalabi? (the man whose lies about WMDs took us to war)

Falwell, evangelist who blamed 9/11 on liberals, dies aged 73

Hamish McRae: Sarkozy could teach Brown a lesson

Leading article: A President with the drive and energy to succeed

Cancer: The good news

Our most feared disease is turning into a condition that people live with, rather than die from, new figures show.

Leading article: A cause for celebration

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

CRS "Defense: FY2008 Authorization and Appropriations," May 11, 2007.

Detainee says he was tortured at Guantanamo

Bush selects war czar

House Intelligence Committee report on the FY 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act (pdf) (at pp. 50-51).

H20 Slate

Climate Change and Energy Security Impacts and Tradeoffs in 2025
Source: World Resources instituteFull PDF version of chart (609 KB)
+ Background information (PDF; 479 KB)

How Privatization Thinks
Source: Outsourcing the U.S., Harvard University Press (via SSRN)

Sustainable Energy: A Framework for Decision Makers (PDF; 1.1 MB)
Source: UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)

Measuring the Cost of Corruption
Source: World Bank

Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? (PDF; 288 KB)
Source: Harvard Business School Working Papers

The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications
Source: University of Pennsylvania Law School. Scholarship at Penn Law

H21 Ageing gracefully

Angela Phillips: Why would any fiftysomething yearn for their twenties? Youth sucks - I'll take maturity any day

A guide to good conduct

Experiments have shown that in different situations the same sort of people behave differently Daniel Finkelstein

Saving Our Digital Heritage By Jim Barksdale and Francine Berman, Digital information has a shorter lifespan than you think -- and federal budget cuts may make it even shorter.

Embassies for Sale By: Paul Kennedy | International Herald Tribune
The United States Foreign Service has a long and noble tradition, and thus its own substantial cohort of experienced diplomats who are well versed in foreign cultures and languages. But it also is affected by another tradition, flowing from the very large powers given to every president: The White House appoints all ambassadors and is not bound to promote career diplomats alone.

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