Two Belgian ministers – for justice and home affairs – offered their resignations immediately after the Brussels attacks.
But Christopher Lamora, a spokesman for the State Department's bureau of consular affairs, offered little hope.
Marshall's Revolution in Military Affairs offered a means to achieve that goal, and both Cheney and Wolfowitz became converts.
The oil pipeline plans are still murky; the gas schemes even sketchier.Shared devotion to "multipolarity" in world affairs offers only a temporary bond.
If only the rest of the world of consumer affairs offered the option of paying nothing in fees unless the performance was extraordinary.
Mr. Kerry, acknowledging that many Democrats are more comfortable with domestic issues than foreign or military affairs, offered a solution: linking the two.
Peter Thiel has three rules for starting a business, including, "Be a Delaware C-corp".: "This separates your business and personal affairs, offers flexibility when it comes to issuing stock, and makes it possible to exit the business by going public".
A recent kerfuffle about foreign governments giving grants to think-tanks in Washington, which sparked talk of illegal meddling in America's sovereign affairs, offered unhelpful cover for the autocrats who are cracking down on NGOs and activists.
Even Thomas Pickering, the under secretary for political affairs, offered "protection and help" for opposition groups working toward a regime change, and showed up for the conclusion of the I.N.C. general assembly.
One prominent ethnic Tajik, Yunus Qanooni, the former interior minister and also a former senior leader in the Northern Alliance, had threatened to refuse to accept a newly-created post as senior adviser on security affairs offered to him after an 80-year-old Pushtun governor was appointed to Mr Qanooni's old job.
Clarifying Hindu perspectives on national and international affairs offers opportunity and challenge.
