Stephen Cohen
Stephen Cohen
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We think it's hard to draw an accurate conclusion about customer service based on singular visits to three branches.
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Pakistan already has a similar law but its record speaks for itself.
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But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
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He is the only president after John F. Kennedy to be ahead of his government on India.
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We were tied up in Korea; we were worried about the Russians. And, conceivably, they said 'nuclear' because they didn't want him to do anything for India; that this was a way of raising the stakes so high as to make it not an option.
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Twenty years later, then, little, if anything, is left of the historic opportunities Gorbachev opened up for his country and the world.
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Both sides have tried all alternatives - ranging from ignoring the other side (India), to the use of force (Pakistan), to the threat of the use of force (India again). Now both sides have run out of options other than to sit across the table and talk.
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The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.
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On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
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People saw this as a sign of his own weakness -- that he had to run to the Americans for protection. The United States is not the most popular country in Pakistan.
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There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.
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This is a radically different way of interacting with money transfers than what people are used to.
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Anyone who is faced with something like this that is so severe ... it will stay with him for the rest of his life. It is a terrible, terrible situation.