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...George W. Bush and his European hosts last week would have been a European desire to sell arms and an American determination to stop them from doing so? Yet so it proved. Not even a shared dinner of lobster risotto and truffle sauce could get Bush and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac (who in this case speaks for Europe old and new) to agree on the European Union's plan to lift its embargo on supplying defense technology to China, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Bush wants the embargo to stay, lest European goods...
Cusworth led all players with 21 points, tying a career high, and 11 rebounds. He scored 15 in the second half, six of which came on three thunderous dunks that got the team going. The center also limited Yale counterpart Dominick Martin to just two points in 23 minutes...
...That question was in the air last week during a furious round of diplomacy set off by the North's Feb. 10 declaration that it has joined the exclusive club of nuclear nations. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned her counterpart in Beijing, Li Zhaoxing, then hosted foreign ministers from South Korea and Japan. The U.S.'s new point man on the now stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading Kim to abandon nuclear arms?ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill?flew to Beijing, where he met with a group of senior Chinese officials, including Wang Jiarui, China...
...cost of a victory includes more work for senior net-minder Dov Grumet-Morris than his counterpart across the ice, then Donato will not be concerned...
...chapter on “Rooted Cosmopolitanism,” Appiah tries to make philosophical sense out of the fact that most people are averse to female circumcision but not to its male counterpart. Appiah uses this apparent contradiction to ask the larger question of how the liberal cosmopolitanism he advocates “might justify tolerance for illiberal practices that are grounded in local traditions...