What brought Europe to war was not the great alliance blocks, nor the Europe-wide arms race (one aspect of the story that is curiously neglected here), but the last gasp of the old Eastern Question, which had plagued European diplomacy for a century.

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The prints in question were made in eastern North America, a part of the world then full of rift valleys similar to those in East Africa today.

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One issue that received considerable attention throughout the day involved the question of whether events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe had eliminated or substantially altered the requirement for an effective U.S. nuclear deterrent.

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Ghandour, who heads Aramex, a Middle Eastern logistics and transportation provider, brought the very definition of profitability into question.

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It is a question which must occur to any sentient traveller in the cities of the eastern Mediterranean. where great civilisations have risen, glittered brilliantly, then vanished into kingdoms of broken stone and dust.

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