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Perhaps they would be. But Article 5 of the o.e.c.d. convention specifically states that neither national economic interests nor foreign-relations priorities should influence bribery investigations. If Britain gets away with shrugging off the convention's terms, it's hard to see what will be left of it. The convention has no mechanism for sanctioning governments other than peer pressure, and activists like Transparency International's Labelle fear "national security" may become an unofficial but accepted exemption. At the March meeting, British officials will once again be grilled on the case."We have to think through some difficult issues," says...
...after the 1994 congressional debacle. The intellectual quality of the proceedings was impressive but, as is always the case with ideologues, myopic. Churchill was cited extravagantly, but it was always the lonely, courageous Churchill warning about Hitler in the 1930s rather than the failed, frustrated Churchill who presided over Britain's Mesopotamian disaster in the 1920s, a folly largely of his own making...
...bioethicist, I have a question about the justification of infanticide by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology on the grounds that "a very disabled child can mean a disabled family." Why should the College apply this consideration only to disabled infants? Cheating husbands, alcoholic wives and nagging mothers-in-law are just a few of the many sorts of people who can mean a very disabled family. Why not kill them...
...grounding ourselves the only answer? That seems to be the conclusion of environmentalists in Britain, who also went after Prime Minister Tony Blair for a recent holiday trip to Miami. Though Blair belatedly promised to begin offsetting his leisure travel, he insisted that telling people to fly less was simply impractical--and he's probably right. Some environmentalists suggest that we could learn to live more locally, but good luck keeping them in Brighton after they've seen Beijing--and vice versa. Our best bet for now may be to limit any business and leisure flights that...
Right now, Prince Charles is probably wishing he had hit the slopes after all. Britain's Prince of Wales decided last year to begin reducing his carbon footprint--the amount of carbon dioxide created by his activities--by cutting down on his flights abroad, including an annual skiing vacation in Switzerland. Though we should all be in the position to make such sacrifices, Charles didn't win plaudits for his holiday martyrdom. Instead British green groups, seconded by Environment Secretary David Miliband, spanked the Prince for deciding to fly to the U.S. on Jan. 27 to pick up a prestigious...