Word: deadlocker
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...game was still close throughout. After two Stag goals within the first three and a half minutes gave Fairfield a 2-0 lead, co-captain Jake Samuelson and junior attackman Greg Cohen scored unassisted goals for Harvard just a minute and 45 seconds apart. The 2-2 deadlock held for the rest of the half until the Stags’ Greg Downing scored with just 29 seconds to play in the quarter. It was his second of four goals on the afternoon, and came after a scrum around the net where the Crimson failed on an easy opportunity to clear...
...Even if this drags on for some time, I don't think it will be a very negative factor for foreign investment. If someone wants to build a factory or buy some shares in Thailand, I don't think they are going to care about this deadlock. There are a number of ways it could end. Thaksin could simply ride this out. Or the army could step in at some point and force him out. Or the King could ask him to resign. But if he is forced out, the problem in Thailand is the same as in many countries...
...compelling talking point: the prospect of civil war. But a day spent with the ambassador as he shuttles across Baghdad reveals just how hard it will be for him to forge compromise. At his meeting with al-Hakim, the SCIRI leader's aides nod when Khalilzad says the political deadlock is creating a vacuum that encourages sectarian impulses. But al-Hakim wants to talk instead about the discovery last week of a bus containing the corpses of 18 men, many of them clearly garroted. News reports said the men were Sunnis; al-Hakim says they were Shi'ites. Khalilzad...
...inability of Iraq's elected leaders to agree on a new coalition government certainly exacerbates the danger of civil war. But the political deadlock also highlights the fact that Iraq is plagued by not one, but two explosive civil conflicts...
...enrichment for research purposes on its own soil, a demand flatly rejected by the West. But the fact that the parties continue to negotiate even as the gears of diplomacy slowly turn suggests that, much evidence to the contrary, both sides may well find a way out of the deadlock...