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...only major country that indulges in diplomatic ostracism (although most Arab states don't recognize Israel). This policy was invented, appropriately enough, by the arch-idealist Woodrow Wilson, who said that diplomatic recognition should depend on the "existence of a just government ... resting upon the consent of the governed." Wilson refused to recognize the Soviet Union in 1917. That ban was lifted in 1933, but Wilson's policy was resurrected in 1949 when the communists conquered China. America's nonrecognition of China, which lasted nearly 30 years, was an unmitigated disaster. "If we had not ostracized the Chinese, we might...
...rally site, famous peace advocates such as South African Anglican Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu, actress Susan Sarandon and Martin Luther King III spoke out against...
...document it had preemptively denounced as a pack of lies, it is suddenly warning against hasty conclusions. "The thing to do is to not prejudge it, be patient and expect that it will take days and weeks probably to go over, and come to some judgments about it, said arch-hawk Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld. It's not as if the document had blindsided Washington - the table of contents, already leaked to the media by U.S. officials on Monday despite the priority supposedly given to maintaining the declaration's security, makes clear that the only weapons programs Iraq is acknowledging...
...different" to distinguish it from the thousands of bed-and-breakfast inns. For those who insist on a 21st century association with the word Vikings, he's also created a football-theme room complete with AstroTurf, lockers from the Minnesota team's practice facilities and a urinal emblazoned with arch-rivals Green Bay Packers' emblem...
...office. If the story lines were not always coherent, at least the action was reliably high octane, the stunts spectacular, the women lovely (and increasingly lethal) and the hero an island of imperturbable British cool amid the mayhem. In the Irish Brosnan, with his nimble brow and arch half-smiles, the franchise has found its most persuasive Bond since Scotsman Sean Connery. Decades of critics have asked when the superspy will mothball the tux and retire. Yet Berry speaks for a lot of post--cold war babies when she says, "Bond is still so sexy and so cool...