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Institutional reform is a delicate affair that needs to be done with caution and sometimes against the conventional reform dogma.
In response, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused Geremek of “damaging his fatherland” and “provoking an anti-Polish affair.”
Another mystery is why Trump, who has been less bothered by revelations of a longer affair at around the same time with a former Playboy model, seems particularly terrified of Daniels.
The way the Dutch government handled the affair was not elegant, to say the least.
I’ve heard something similar when Russian problems are discussed: “Just finish this Yukos affair.
With the outbreak of the Dreyfus affair, the religious question appeared more clearly than ever as a major political issue.
The Snowden affair has blown up any illusion about trust between leaders – and also about leaders’ competence.
But perhaps the most interesting and intriguing facet of this process is President Barack Obama’s eloquent indifference to the entire affair.
And if the aestheticexploration of the word was no longer the goal, it could not be abandoned entirelyand with disdain; whatever we wrote and now write, with whatever purpose,whether to express the struggle for freedom or the passion of a love affair,can approach the power of truth only to the extent that we are capable ofexploring the splendor of language brought into its service.
The Periphery’s PurgatoryATHENS – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s upcoming visit to Athens will be a far less tense affair than her earlier journeys here during Europe’s long financial crisis.
This is not to say that the US should never support insurgencies against established governments; but doing so is almost always a lonely affair, without any realistic expectation of enlisting many partners in the process.
The defense treaties concluded recently by France and the United Kingdom appear to be a good example of what can be obtained through greater cooperation and integration – even though it is a strictly bilateral affair with no direct links to either NATO or the European Union.
But a euro exit would be a messy affair.
Indeed, journalists caught in this Kafkaesque affair can expect to spend years behind bars before being allowed to respond to the accusations against them.
It is no secret that Allen finds young women attractive; his current wife was not yet 20 when he started an affair with her.
The Iran-Contra affair of the 1980’s, through which Israel supplied arms to the Islamic Republic in its war against Iraq is a case in point.
Until the Yukos affair, capital flight was reversing.
If capital flight resumes, it will quickly snowball if President Putin fails to convince people that the Yukos affair is an isolated case.
My longstanding skepticism about this promise has now hardened into certainty: the Yukos affair will make it impossible to sustain the growth rate required to achieve this goal because the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the seizure of his assets has dealt a devastating blow to business confidence.
President Putin, meanwhile, steadfastly refuses to discuss the Yukos affair or the actions of the law enforcement agencies with Russia's business community.
But how is this vision connected to the resignation of Petraeus, a storied and much-decorated general before he took over the CIA, following the revelation that he had an extra-marital affair?
My foreign interlocutors replied that, with the affair now exposed, the blackmail threat has been removed, so Petraeus should stay in office.
When his affair came to light, he faced up to his failure, took responsibility for the consequences, and did what he believed that duty, honor, and country required.
By contrast, “Jerusalem” regards “Tel Aviv’s” drive for “normalcy” as a shallow affair, one that is almost criminally indifferent to Jewish memory and the lessons of Jewish history.
Twice upstaged, Clinton’s discussions with China’s leaders took place under the shadow not only of the Chen affair, but also of the recent purge of Bo Xilai from the Communist Party’s senior leadership.
So, instead, they “ripped into” the US delegation, in the words of a senior American official, over the Chen affair.
Most of the economy is a domestic affair: Indians producing goods and services for other Indians to consume in India.
Under ordinary circumstances, the world could dismiss the ignorant rabble-rousing of a populist like Trump, whose campaign would remain a fringe affair.
The presidential election of 2009 – in which Hamid Karzai gained a second term – was a highly contentious affair, and neither the Afghan political system nor the international community came through it with flying colors.
The post-2007 crisis was not simply a financial affair.
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