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Nobody on any side of the Iran nuclear dispute believes that yesterday's U.N. sanctions vote is going to break the deadlock. Faced with continuing Iranian defiance of the demand that it suspend uranium enrichment until concerns over the intent of its nuclear program can be resolved, the Security Council passed a package that incrementally tightens existing sanctions. It banned travel by certain officials of Iran's nuclear program, freezed the assets of certain companies and barred Iran from importing certain dual-use technologies. But Iran has made quite clear that it has no intention of complying with...
...burning carbon at industrial rates over a century during which China and India barely registered on the global economic scale. So, as long as the U.S. - by far the world's top carbon emitter by historical standards - insists that it won't move until China and India do, the deadlock remains. As Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s top climate change official, told the Associated Press: "If it's a quid pro quo, it's a nonstarter...
...Unger breaks the deadlock! Columbia 21, Harvard...
...Obama captured 48% of the vote in the theoretical match-up against McCain's 41%, the TIME poll reported, while Clinton and McCain would deadlock at 46% of the vote each. Put another way, McCain looks at the moment to have a narrowly better chance of beating the New York Senator than he does the relative newcomer from Illinois...
...race, who knows - if the Democratic primaries still haven't yielded a clear winner for the nomination by the summer, perhaps the party will need to use Florida's delegates (and Michigan's) to break the deadlock. It is, after all, the kind of extra-innings electoral role Florida has played before...