RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev keeps giving speeches about ending the lawlessness and corruption that have overtaken his country. That would be encouraging -- except that Russians who try to act on the president's words keep turning up dead. The latest victim of what Mr. Medvedev calls "legal ...

BY NOW it is a cliche that the United States has no more important bilateral relationship than that with China. Yet in the wake of President Obama's sometimes awkward visit to Beijing, it is becoming clear that, in one crucial respect, Sino-American relations are dysfunctional: Though umbilically...

THERE ARE NOW more seats that are vacant than filled on the board governing the University of the District of Columbia. Though Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has sent the D.C. Council a number of nominees -- including two suggested by Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray -- there seems to be no end to this si...

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