Tomorrow, Dmitry Medvedev will be inaugurated as the president of Russia. There will be a ceremony, during which Mr. Medvedev will take an oath of office. Afterward, he will be driven home in a presidential motorcade, presumably to a presidential dacha. ...
In London, a man with a fire extinguisher hurled himself at a torchbearer using what a friend gleefully describes as a "rugby tackle." In Paris, the torch's omnipresent security guards members of the Sacred Flame Protection Unit of the Chinese People's ...
Is this a storm in a teacup, as the archbishop now claims? Was the "feeding frenzy," to use another Britishism, biased and unfair? Certainly it is true that, since last Thursday, when Rowan Williams — the Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of ...
The French Revolution had its Jacobins; the Russian Revolution erupted in Red Terror. The peaceful revolutions of more recent years weren't supposed to produce violent counterrevolutions. But now one of them has. Indeed, in a single week, the president ...
And now we come to what may be a truly fundamental test, maybe even a turning point, for that part of the world generally known as the West. The test is this: Are prominent, articulate critics of radical Islam, critics who happen to be citizens of ...
"You're not going to have time in January '09 to get ready for this job." "If the position of president was a street, someone would have to hold Obama's hand while he crossed it." Like John Kerry's flip-flops or John Edwards's haircuts, the foreign ...
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