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...which he hopes will be furthered by events like his global warming summit, which could help bolster Republican chances in electoral vote-rich Florida. "Like a good offensive line pushing down the field," says Crist, a former college football player, "eventually you knock down the door and you build consensus...
...name Taiwan." He added that "we do not support Taiwan's membership in international organizations that require statehood, including the United Nations." High-ranking Chinese officials have also been conducting a quiet campaign to express their concerns to influential U.S. officials and businessmen, trying to create a tacit consensus in America against Chen's crusade...
...reputation as the French left's leading market-friendly reformist, there are few on either side of the nation's political divide challenging his nomination. Though dubious of Sarkozy's motives behind the nomination, even the Socialist Party has acknowledged that DSK (as Strauss-Kahn is known) is the consensus candidate of "France and European nations," and as such the party had "no opposition of substance or principle...
...name Taiwan." He added that "we do not support Taiwan's membership in international organizations that require statehood, including the United Nations." High-ranking Chinese officials have also been conducting a quiet campaign to express their concerns to influential U.S. officials and businessmen, trying to create a tacit consensus in America against Chen's crusade...
...been impossible, however, to get the consensus required to implement the plan. In recent weeks, the U.S. and its European allies have revised the proposed resolution to put before the Security Council three times, but have yet to satisfy Russian objections. Neither a meeting of the G8 group of industrialized nations in Germany last month nor the recent summit between the U.S. and Russian Presidents in Kennebunkport, Maine succeeded in breaking the deadlock. Diplomats now believe that if the resolution were brought to the Security Council for a vote, Russia would veto it. The Russian foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov...