This entails contradictions: NATOish independence, work for the interests of the alliance, and perfecting the military tools to ensure interoperability with other actors meet with a UNish concept of dependency on international norms and global interests.

[Henry] Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s.

Trust me, that stem siren had it coming.

I don’t want any [drugs] near schools, I don’t want any of it sold to children. That is an infamita.