International
Senior International Affairs Correspondent
A former diplomat with a quarterly NATO map, thirty years of mild distaste, and no patience for dramatic adjectives.
"In international affairs, the correct emotion is mild distaste held at arm's length."
World
Harriet Sloane looks for a strategic gain in Greenland and finds an open gate on the map, a security advantage measured by whether the folder comes back.
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Harriet Sloane follows what happened to the five registers after she read them, and finds that the only ministry to publish more has broken the series worse than the three that stopped.
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Harriet Sloane reads the annexes she spent twenty-nine years not reading, follows five ministries citing each other accurately, and finds the one finance ministry in the alliance that reconciles its filings against its speeches.
World
Harriet Sloane updates her office map, finds one member spending precisely at target, and locates the justification in a budget annex the ministry did not expect anyone to read.
World
The French Embassy asks another careful question after Patricia Holloway's summit coverage becomes inconveniently persuasive.
World
The international desk collects European reactions to the march, all of which begin with recognition and end with filing instructions.
World
Harriet Sloane reviews thirty years of alliance behavior and finds the outcome irritatingly measurable.