Word: apartness
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...crying, no fighting and no hand thumping," marveled European Commission President Romano Prodi. Chirac avoided any echoes of the brusque treatment he meted out in February toward the new members from the former Warsaw Pact. He also had a 25-minute t?te-?-t?te with Tony Blair. Apart from the still touchy and inchoate issue of the E.U.'s foreign and defense policy, the two have some common ground in pushing for an end to the rotating six-month presidency of the Union, which small states want to preserve. The two also brokered an E.U. declaration calling for "a central...
...confession to the killing was ignored. Soldiers and police could have prevented the murder and didn't; they could have caught the killers and didn't. How could all this have happened in the law-abiding United Kingdom? Because Northern Ireland, in its time of Troubles, was a land apart. In the late '80s, the British government adopted a more aggressive security policy to break the deadlock with the i.r.a. During that push, a secret army detachment known as the Force Research Unit managed to insert an agent named Brian Nelson into the Ulster Defense Association, a loyalist gang. F.R.U...
Winning the Pulitzer will give Power an added platform—apart from her academic position—from which to stress the moral imperative of recognizing crimes against humanity. This “snob factor,” she says, will give her the opportunity to speak to the gatekeepers, though she plans to “think strategically about how to use the battles...
...task force, announced Monday, comes in response to mounting concern from policymakers that dissension over war in Iraq as well as post-Cold War political realities have pushed the longtime allies apart...
Seizing on the momentum generated at the back, Harvard’s offense picked apart the Wildcats’ defense early and often, scoring three goals in the first 12 minutes en route to its highest final tally of the season...