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...government is allowed to plead that reasons of national security excuse it from its obligations, any international consensus on bribery would quickly disappear. "What happened with the U.K. - that a country has to explain itself and justify what it is doing internally - would have been impossible some years back," says Mark Pieth, a Swiss law professor who chairs the o.e.c.d. working group. Pieth says he wants Britain to have a fair hearing, but he worries that, if there has been a breach, the convention itself would be "squarely at risk...
Kagan, 46 years old and the dean of Harvard Law School, has gained a reputation as a consensus-driven diplomat who has brought unity to the historically fractious school...
...outline clearly for people what our options are. And I think at one of those events I said, really, there are three big ways, either individually or in combination, that we can get to universal coverage, and universal coverage my goal, and I think increasingly, there's political consensus for it, which there wasn't back in 1993 and 1994. There wasn't even the means of getting there. There wasn't really an agreement that we needed to go there. And that has changed...
...look, I know how difficult this is. Probably nobody knows better how complicated the politics are. I'm ready to get out there again. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and work with people. But this time, I want to be sure that we have a political consensus about what we can accomplish together, because there will be a tremendous amount of pressure from those who don't want to change the system as we know it, because they do well by it. So we have to go into this with our eyes wide open and with sufficient...
...with President Bush's plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq. Democrats have introduced a resolution criticizing the plan and opposing the President outright. Senator John McCain of Arizona has proposed a countervailing resolution that tacitly backs the surge of troops. Neither captures the cautiously antisurge consensus that many Senators are seeking, which puts the spotlight on Warner, a former Secretary of the Navy and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who has introduced a bipartisan resolution with a third approach: oppose the surge and prod Bush to follow the diplomacy-heavy recommendations of the Iraq...