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2. With so many wounds to lick and decisions to make, it might be reasonable to
expect everyone to take a mouth off just to map strategy. (Wall Street Journal)
3. Misleading military briefings eroded Washington’s credibility during the
Vietnam War. Yet since then, the Pentagon has continued to try to manage
combat information even during the military success of the Gulf War.
(International Herald Tribune)
4. The recently elected Afghan president Hamid Karzai will want to convince rural
Afghans that democracy is, after all, worth a day off from their fields to come to
the polls. (Business Week)
5. The dollar gained 2 roubles to close at 29.60.
6. The EU offered to cut significantly the production of oilseeds only to see every
effort rejected by the American agriculture secretary.
7. The president will appoint governors to be later confirm by regional legislatures.
8. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to
change the things I can and wisdom to always tell the difference. (Kurt
Vonnegut)
9. The IMF managing director wrote recently that the fund could not lend money
to inflation-wracked Russia only to see it leave the country.
10. The Rwanda’s rulers had little reason to love the UN that stood idly by while
more than 800,000 people were massacred four years ago.
11. Traders looking for reasons to sell the dollar had plenty to choose from Friday.
12. Lukoil is one of a number of Russian groups to have contracts in Iraq.
13. The government hopes that the changes, yet to be detailed, will encourage
investors to invest in renewable energy schemes.
14. A top student in his homeland, he spent eight exciting years at Cambridge
University where he was the first Nigerian to be elected as a research fellow.
15. If the Security Council permanent members are to live up to their
responsibilities, they must be prepared to put their forces at the UN’s disposal.
16. Americans are said to be a sleep-deprived people, and teenagers are the worst of
the lot.
17. Tens of millions of industrial workers are struggling for laws that would allow
them to bargain collectively.
18. If you are running a growth company, you have to expect people to come up, put
up their hands and say, “I can’t take it any longer.”
19. A wiser course would be for Washington to try with Iran what it did with North
Korea – coax it into curbing its nuclear program.
20. Some advisers suggest that the next elections provide an opportunity for Hillary
Clinton to make a triumphant return to the White House.
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