The agreement between Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Bush the Elder that allowed the reunification of the two parts of Germany had been accompanied by a pledge by the Americans that NATO would “not advance one inch further east.”10 The subsequent history of Eastern Europe is a perfect illu...
The concrete colossus has seen many events beyond soccer in the last half-century. It has accommodated presidents, popes and Paul McCartney. It has seen championship prize fights and NFL regular-season games. However, the exploits of 1970 have tied it intrinsically to the ...
the ultimate public good. Before Boris Johnson, the UK’s prime minister, fell ill with Covid-19 himself, he had voiced opposition to a sugar tax, which health experts argued was a weapon in the war on obesity but which many in Britain thought an unnecessary intrusion of...
The member also revealed that in the negotiations, the Lusatian energy company had wanted to change 2038 as the final phase-out date to 2045. After intensive negotiations and intervention by minister presidents, a compromise was reached. The member conceded that in the end the Structural Developmen...
And how many of them (the Jews) will be left? Their number will be as many as a pear tree has pears during a fertile year, those who will CONVERT to Christianity. “I AM your God. I AM your Lord. I JESUS CHRIST the King and NOT some bunch of greedy, carnal nation of people ...
It was Thursday and the 30-year-old, who grew up in a mining village in Colombia, had already been camped out along the towering steel bollards for two days when whispers began to spread about the social media post. It claimed thatTitle 42, a policy the U...
And so I thought about who has got a vested interest in this as we do, as I do? And so I reached out to the presidents of the labor unions, and sat with them and said, would you join up as partners to us on this journey of zero harm, of protecting everybody in our...
The latter issue has caught the attention of numerous college presidents, who expressed dismay over visa processing delays and prompted open letters from multiple college presidents this year to government officials addressing the matter. Tamayo also points to increased competition from other countr...
The man making the allegation: Iván Velásquez, a relentless Colombian prosecutor whom many call the Robert Mueller of Latin America. He’s known for jailing presidents and paramilitaries–and he had the backing of the United Nations and then-Vice President Joe Biden when he took on the challe...
she thought she had reached Smug coffee Shangri-La when she saw that she would be able to order a cup of the most insanely overpriced coffee she has ever seen in her life:Santuario Geishafrom Colombia. Smug Scout loves the idea of a coffee plantation that is also a sanctuary for beleaguer...