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Atlantic Eye: Tbilisi's European yearnings

Arriving in Tbilisi's modern airport still has some feel of arriving behind the Iron Curtain. The drive to the British ambassador's residence reminded me of driving in Azerbaijan -- large monuments line the wide boulevard into Georgia's capital. There ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  17 Apr 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  European Union,  U.S. Congress,  Mikhail Saakashvili,  David Lee

Atlantic Eye: Misreading Howard Dean

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is still remembered as the Democratic front-runner in early 2004 who lost the Iowa caucuses and let out a much-played yelp or screech. It is a profoundly unfair picture. I have found Dean to be thoughtful, inspiring, ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  20 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Howard Dean,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Mario Cuomo,  Wesley Clark,  Andrew Tobias

Atlantic Eye: Momentum won, momentum lost

As I boarded my flight to Columbus from Schiphol Airport, I remembered the dinner Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland hosted for the kickoff of Global Panel America in late October 2007. The evening struck an international theme with the guests from Canada, the ...

From MARC ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  5 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  John McCain,  White House,  Ted Strickland

Atlantic Eye: President-to-be Obama

By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Dear Mr. President-to-be: On Jan 28, just a week before Super Tuesday, I co-hosted a dinner with 25 guests at a diplomatic residence in Prague. The main guest was former ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  26 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  European Union,  John McCain,  Harvard University

Atlantic Eye: A communist-apologist wins

By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist HAMILTON, Ontario, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus barely won a second five-year term from Parliament on the weekend. Klaus was given a run for his money by U.S./Czech academic Jan ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  19 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Vaclav Klaus,  Vaclav Havel,  Social Democratic Party of Germany,  World Bank

Atlantic Eye: U.S. elections

By MARC S ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist TORONTO, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- No U.S. presidential primary in recent memory has been watched overseas more closely than the 2008 contest. It has also brought out large numbers of previously unregistered U.S. ...

From MARC S ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  12 Feb 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  George W. Bush,  Social Democratic Party of Germany

Atlantic Eye: As the votes came in

By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- It is 8:50 p.m. EST on Super Tuesday. I have just gotten off the phone with former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark. Many polls are still open, ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  6 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Republican Party,  Wesley Clark,  Barack Obama,  John McCain

Atlantic Eye: Kiwis, cows and kangaroos

By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A famous vignette of World War II has Field Marshall Montgomery visiting a New Zealand regiment in North Africa. Montgomery's prickly persona in full display, he was annoyed ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  1 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Edmund Hillary,  Helen Clark,  Don McKinnon,  Phil Goff,  Jim Sutton

Atlantic Eye: Hillary's tear to victory

By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Her defining moment is not really the tear she almost shed. The defining moment was her loss in Iowa. The show of emotion in New Hampshire was just a result of ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  10 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush

Atlantic Eye: A Georgian rose half-opened

By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- "He is charming, but glib. Saakashvili needs to step up to the plate if the Rose Revolution is to meet its promise. It is not enough to want to be in the ...

From MARC S. ELLENBOGEN, United Press International,  7 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Eduard Shevardnadze,  European Union,  Howard Dean,  U.S. Democratic Party

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