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...that not so long ago produced Prime Ministers such as Romano Prodi in Italy, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in Britain, Gerhard Schröder in Germany, and Presidents, like François Mitterrand, who ruled France for 14 years. The puzzle is sharpened by the current crop of center-right leaders, who are either not very exciting (Merkel) or much too exciting (Sarkozy and Berlusconi, with their flashy or buffo theatrics...
...those right-of-center leaders have taken a page from Bill Clinton's breviary on "triangulation." Here is the right, there is the left, and we sail straight through the middle. Or from Winnie-the-Pooh who answered, when asked whether he preferred honey or condensed milk on his toast, that he would take both, but could do without the bread. Pooh...
This fall, Hare is opening the Duke Canine Cognition Center, where he is going to test hundreds of dogs brought in by willing owners. Marc Hauser, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, recently opened his own such research lab and has 1,000 dogs lined up as subjects. Other facilities are operating in the U.S. and Europe...
...Even though he came to power on the back of a U.S.-led invasion, Karzai has portrayed himself as the one man willing to criticize coalition forces. "Karzai wants his legacy to be an Afghan leader who stood up against the foreigners," says Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies...
...company hardly had time to celebrate. Two years later, Coke and Pepsi were targeted by a study from an NGO called the Center for Science and Environment (CSE)--a group focused on environmental-sustainability issues--which alleged that samples of the companies' drinks tested high for pesticide residue. Both firms' sales and reputations were hit hard. In a rare moment of solidarity, Pepsi and Coca-Cola held a joint press conference attacking the NGO. The claims were raised again in 2006, and annual sales of carbonated drinks shrank. An expert panel appointed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare...