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...obvious” obligation to pay higher wages, it noted the equally obvious fact that those with the leisure to engage in such philosophical musings must hesitate before demanding justifications from those who do not. The response reminded me of a tactic once described by Isaiah Berlin, of resolving the difficult questions of life by “so treating the questioner that problems which appeared at once so overwhelmingly important and utterly insoluble vanish from the questioner’s consciousness like evil dreams and trouble him no more...
...announced that all organic products such as eggs, poultry and even beef are being pulled from shelves as a precaution. Uwe Bartels, Lower Saxony's agriculture minister, described it as "the biggest scandal in organic farming in Germany." As if that weren't bad enough, a squabble erupted in Berlin over the government's slowness in identifying the problem. According to agriculture officials, the Federal Center for Meat Research in Kulmbach found Nitrofen in organic chicken as early as Jan. 28, but the discovery wasn't reported to the federal Agriculture Ministry until May 23."This new scandal marks...
...around. They respect neither treaties nor traditions. They don't care about their allies unless they need some special forces for Tora Bora. They bestride the world as if it were the Rose Garden of the White House - all theirs." In less polite circles, such as those that turned Berlin into an anti-American free-for-all while George W. visited last week, the message is harsher. The funniest poster read: "Peace for the World, Pretzels for Bush." Others called him a "war monger" who was "not welcome," his face circled in red and bisected by a slashing red line...
...Afghan Museum in Exile, near Basel: "There's no way we could possibly protect the site." Bucherer-Dietschi worries about looters as well. At the bidding of Pakistani antiquities smugglers, he says, the Taliban trucked off chunks of the two standing Buddhas and sold them "like pieces of the Berlin Wall...
Over the past month, CIA and State Department officials have met with long-feuding Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani to help them bury the hatchet. At a top-secret gathering in Berlin in April, the CIA discussed with them how the U.S. could protect the Kurds if Saddam retaliated against them after a U.S. attack. Also on the U.S. agenda are critical logistical issues, from the condition of roads and airports in the area to how soon Iraqi exiles could be sent into training. (Late last week Barzani confirmed to Time that there was a meeting of Kurdish...