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That paradox is evident in foreign affairs. Sarkozy has declared European issues to be among his main diplomatic priorities, but he has approached them with nationalistic designs. Sarkozy played a central role in getting E.U. leaders to accept a simplified treaty in the place of a new constitution, for example, yet he has continually criticized the European Central Bank - and attacked its president, Jean-Claude Trichet - for not shaping policy to French economic considerations. Similarly, just how good a European was Sarkozy being when he preempted years of effort by Brussels to secure the freedom of Bulgarian medics held...
...After really considering the facts of the case, he decided to, on our advice, accept responsibility for what he actually did do,” Little said in a telephone interview on Tuesday...
...limit them. "If we could get all 21 economies to agree to make some kind of a contribution to address the issue," Downer says, "it would be a very big step forward." Alan Oxley, chairman of the Australian APEC Study Center at Monash University, agrees. "The Chinese will not accept the sort of regulation Kyoto proposes," he says. "But they are showing increasing interest in the AP6 model. So there's a significant opportunity for APEC to influence the global regime." The outcome, he says, could be a multitrack system: "If the Europeans want to regulate, let them, but there...
...realm of real human interaction, people want to be interested in the person whom it is comfortable to be with and who is passionate about life. We're all enticed by the physical. That's just biology. But we all know that we are looking for someone to accept us and celebrate us for who we are. Who wants to put on an act 24 hours...
Parents of gifted children must accept responsibility for meeting their children's needs. Home-schooled students stay with their families and communities; they choose friends and activities according to their personalities and interests and learn at their own pace. Many home-schooled children begin taking community-college courses in their early teens without leaving home, so they don't suffer the social isolation of the "hurried child" who leaves home for university life before he has matured. For those who fear they cannot teach or do not have time to teach, rest assured that there are options ranging from Internet...