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...Tehran's confidence on the nuclear front is based less on its widespread domestic support on the issue than on the international balance of forces that will dictate how the crisis plays out. A top delegation of European leaders, including Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw and EU security chief Javier Solana, are expected to meet Iranian negotiators in Geneva on Wednesday, anxious to walk Tehran back from resuming uranium enrichment activities. Those are allowed under the rules of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany), like the U.S. and Israel, suspect that Iran...
...softpedaling of Japan's greatest military victory is grating to many conservatives, who don't see why the event should be conflated with less savory aspects of Japan's wartime past. "Britain is celebrating the bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar as a national event. That is what a normal country does," says opposition lawmaker Shingo Nishimura. "We still have a long way to go to become normal...
Prior to his brief stint at UVM, Gates worked at NYU, while earning his master’s, for nearly a decade in a wide range of administrative posts. As executive director of Global Operations, Gates coordinated NYU’s campuses in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Italy, and Argentina...
...dark music and minor chords") and that he wanted to turn his back on sampling, which, at that point, was the only thing he was known for. Having spent most of the '90s with Blur, warring with Oasis' Gallagher brothers over the very important matter of which band was Britain's best, Albarn, 37, has since matured into something of a pop Brahmin, using his fortune to underwrite ambitiously weird projects. "I'm in a position to be charmed by audacity," says Albarn. "Brian's a good soul. You can't possibly dislike him. He's young...
...organizations' coverage is slanted. In covering the Iraq war, he contends, "there was a dereliction of duty. Not enough organizations showed the other side. There was an attempt to sanitize the war. We don't agree that's a good thing." News director Steve Clark, 52, a veteran of Britain's Sky News, says al-Jazeera International will make a mission of covering the developing world but doesn't intend to "sound like some alternative channel that is wacky and different...