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• Changing Partners?

  - 2005-12-26

  Ambassadors are a cagey bunch. Publicly, they speak in the coded language of diplomacy. But what are the somber suits really thinking? Try this: the new members of the European Union are "rude" and "ungrateful." The bloc's Common Agricultural Policy is "the most stupid, immoral state-subsidized policy in human history,...

  Tags: ambassador, Britain, Brussels, E-mail, Europe, European Parliament, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, upshot

• Changing Partners? Britain hoped to remake Europe in its own image. It has succeeded chiefly in alienating its allies.

  - 2005-12-26

  Byline: William Underhill Ambassadors are a cagey bunch. Publicly, they speak in the coded language of diplomacy. But what are the somber suits really thinking? Try this: the new members of the European Union are "rude" and "ungrateful." The bloc's Common Agricultural Policy...

  Tags: Britain, E-mail, Europe, European Parliament, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, upshot

• Mergers and acquisitions

  - 2005-06-22

  TALK ABOUT empire has become a cliche. Historians and economists busy themselves comparing America's contemporary role with Rome, Napoleonic France and imperial Britain. They assume that empire is the only model for a state seeking to project power and influence--ignoring alternatives from the business world. After all, businesses confront many...

  Tags: America, China, Europe, European Court, FINANCE, Investment, M&A, merger, U.S., upshot

• Mission unlimited.(The Mission: Waging War and Keeping the Peace with America's Military)(Book Review)

  - 2003-10-01

  THE MISSION: WAGING WAR AND KEEPING THE PEACE WITH AMERICA'S MILITARY BY DANA PRIEST * W. W. NORTON & COMPANY * 384 PAGES * $26.95 A PRINCIPAL DEFICIENCY OF THE ARGUMENT against the Iraq War was that the war's opponents, like the...

  Tags: Afghanistan, America, Europe, Government, Pentagon, Priest, U.S., upshot