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You get a diploma for turning up for two nights at a course and that enables you to manage in the Premiership.

After a morning dip in the surf, I might head to town for a mango and papaya smoothie.

"Professional diplomats tended to look down on the National Security Council staff surrounding the president and complained they had no idea what diplomacy involves.

"We've seen much worse than this," a Western diplomat said.

"This is a wholesale change for the Saudis, with the publication of these names and pictures," says a Western diplomat posted in Riyadh.

"A subculture exists here, those who fell into what the Saudis refer to as jihadist or takfiri terminology," says the Western diplomat.

"We've got to recognize that we're fighting an ideology that springs out of a radical or xenophobic Islam," the Western diplomat says.

It began relatively small—a diplomatic crisis involving Corinth, a Spartan ally; some low-level combat in a town near Athens—but metastasized into a conflict that lasted nearly three decades, involved numerous states, and resulted, finally, in the defeat of Athens and the abolition of its democratic institutions.

After the Corinthian diplomatic crisis, ties between Athens and Sparta disintegrated.

Every key moment in the war—from the debate, in 431, over whether the Athenians should involve themselves in Corinth’s altercation with its former colony to the controversies over Mytilene and Melos and the decision to invade Sicily—is cast as a dialogue that, as Thucydides admits, may not be a faithful reproduction of exactly what was said in this or that legislative session or diplomatic parley but does elucidate the ideologies at play.

These two facts suggest an underlying commentary on the Corinthian diplomatic crisis of a few years earlier—an event characterized by broken covenants and explosive confrontations between “kindred” states—which led to the outbreak of the war.

Gore spoke as if he were in church, in his down-home "Tennessee" voice, pulling every vowel out into a tortured dipthong, sawing the air with his right hand, and packing every slow sentence with heavy emphases.

The attacks sparked rioting, which alerted American diplomatic officials on the island.

The moon had dipped.

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