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...then "very, very angry." Once again the Daily Mail had the scoop, confirming that Fergie had been quietly pressing for a split since November. The paper also reported that two weeks ago the Queen received her daughter-in-law at a "private lunch" in a last-ditch effort to avert a breakup. "A private lunch with the Queen is supposed to remain private, not pitch up in the papers," fumed a palace official. The condemnation of Fergie as unsuitable was a social death sentence...
Unlike HIV, Michelangelo can be cured. As long as you don't boot up today, you can still avert disaster with a quick trip to the Science Center basement or OIT. They'll tell you what to do. It has something to do with scanners and disinfectants and "ex. A:/pkunzip scanv86b.zip." "Apparently, it shouldn't cost you any money this time...
Yves Fortier, who just retired as Canada's ambassador to the U.N., says the organization suffers from "overlapping mandates" among its different agencies. A single water project in Africa, for example, might have six agencies vying for control. "We've witnessed some appalling turf wars," says Fortier. To avert future battles, he urges Boutros-Ghali to "commandeer the system and make sure that the barons are not always getting in each other's way and trying to outdo sister agencies." Last month the General Assembly took a first step to control duplication and infighting among humanitarian aid programs by calling...
Essentially he reiterated the case against the commonwealth -- then offered to help bring it about. Gorbachev still saw himself as the indispensable man, the only figure on the political stage who can avert civil war, who can keep the army under control, who can bring Slavs and Muslims together, who can prevent the hungry, angry, impatient populace from pouring into the streets and providing a pretext for another rightist coup...
Gorbachev fought desperately to hang on. He called the agreement unconstitutional and warned of anarchy, potential civil wars and fascist takeovers if the union fell apart. Founders of the commonwealth agreed that those were real dangers, but described their association as a "last chance" to avert them. Gorbachev tried to convene the Congress of People's Deputies, the national legislature, to work out some kind of compromise between the new commonwealth and his Union of Sovereign States, but was blocked when legislators from the commonwealth republics refused to attend. The Soviet President huddled with army commanders to appeal for military...