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...were his foes. "We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first, are the people who live in America," Bush said. "That's my priority." Swedish Environment Minister Kjell Larsson said the Administration's move "sabotages many years of hard work;" his French counterpart, Dominique Voynet, called the U.S. position "suicidal and irresponsible;" and Margot Wallström, the European Union's Commissioner for the environment, seemed to hint at the possibility of calling for sanctions against the E.U.'s biggest trading partner. "This isn't some marginal environmental issue that can be ignored or played...
However, the initiative that was announced yesterday in Boston has no similar Cambridge counterpart. And University officials say the planned Cambridge announcement on Monday is unrelated...
...borders are pretty porous, and guerrillas appear to be able to move around. The hardest thing to be right now is an ordinary Chechen without work or shelter. If you're a guerrilla fighter, chances are you're a lot better fed, clothed and funded than your civilian counterpart. And you're probably a lot more confident about the future...
Crimson goalie Guyer ended the afternoon with three saves, while her counterpart, Doyle, had ten saves in the losing effort...
...Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter, and an IRA statement that it was talking again with the international body in charge of putting paramilitary weapons beyond use, could not hide the lack of tangible progress on a Rubik's Cube...