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It began as a sleepy affair – a likely victory for the incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, running against a motley crew of conservative has-beens or upstarts.
Far from a bow-and-arrow affair carried out by local tribes, it has become a kind of mechanized warfare, featuring gangs equipped with AK-47s, electronic tracking gear, and sometimes even helicopters.
But the euro is a European affair.
By the standards of Western, and even emerging Third World democracies, the Saudi municipal elections are an extremely modest affair.
Yet the trial of Colonel Yuri Budanov in the city of Rostov-on-Don on charges of kidnapping, raping and murdering an 18 year old Chechen girl named Elsa Kungaeva contains echoes of the notorious Dreyfus affair that divided France a century ago.
Today's Russian army is not the bastion of reactionary monarchism and anti-Semitism that shaped French officers' behavior in the Dreyfus affair.
As in the Dreyfus affair, Russia's army is increasingly a prisoner of its friends-die hard communists, Great Russian chauvinists, ranting nationalists, and all the other anti-reform and anti-democratic groups who make defense of military honor a rallying cry for their own dark causes.
Like the Dreyfus affair, so pathetic a distortion of law into propaganda will ultimately leave an even more profound sense of shame, one lasting generations after Budanov's supporters have lost all credibility.
The real criminal in the Liu Xiaobo affair is, of course, the Chinese state.
Only gradually was it recognized as a truly transatlantic affair.
Hence populists’ love affair with plebiscites and referenda.
He must also settle the Yukos affair and change his Chechen policy.
But, if past performance is indicative of future returns, the offensive is likely to be a fleeting affair.
In Germany, forming a new government after an election used to be a straightforward affair.
But is the Gates affair the right way to enter into this discussion?
European policymaking after 2010 was practically a bilateral affair, involving a dominant France and a more dominant Germany.
Such extremes cast a pall of exploitation over the whole affair.
But the Bo Xilai and Gu Kalai affair may only be a prologue, because the only clear truth to emerge from it is that the Party leadership is fractured.
For a while, financial markets were engrossed in a torrid love affair with Brazil.
By contrast the Enron affair involved impropriety and perhaps criminal conduct of just about anyone coming close to management.
This is the clearest feature of this tangled affair: the Argentine government wants to increase bilateral trade, while Ahmadinejad wants to be cleared of suspicion in a case that is damaging Iran’s standing across Latin America.
In other words, from a corporate perspective, the penalty is a trifling affair.
Power-sharing among coalition partners will be an intricate affair, including behind-the-scenes deals with the military, which will insist on measures to safeguard its interests.
An unfortunate analogy used in the Iraq affair poses America as the chef and others, notably Europe, as the cleanup staff.
But the hit of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was a low-key affair called Inequality for All, in which Robert Reich, a labor secretary in the Clinton administration, explains how rising income inequality and the demise of the middle class is causing so many Americans to suffer.
But it soon became an international affair.
It is often forgotten that Yeltsin loyalists like Alexander Voloshin and former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov survived in office until the Yukos affair of 2003-04.
But the simultaneous nomination of Tillerson – the long-time CEO of ExxonMobil, America’s most powerful energy company, which has tens of billions of dollars invested in Russia – to be America’s top diplomat takes this love affair with a major adversary to a level unprecedented in US history.
This is not merely an internal Palestinian affair, for it reflects a conflict raging across the entire Middle East.
The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the New York state attorney general, for example, are investigating the collection and distribution of unusually large funds for the presidential inauguration, the Trump family business and foundation (which has been forced to shut down), the payment of hush money before the election to keep a porn star quiet about an affair with Trump, Trump’s taxes, and other issues.
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