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...ever will. Reaching compromise on the U.N.'s role won't be easy, so France is trying to signal its goodwill to the U.S. in other forms - notably in the planning for this June's meeting of the G-8, with France presiding in Evian. One impartial western diplomat involved in that process says the French have been "bending over backward" to accommodate American wishes for the event. They have given the Americans "everything they wanted," right down to a preferred time slot for the arrival of Air Force One and a higher profile for counterterror issues on the summit...
...think we have any differences," a senior Turkish diplomat assured Time, even as he agitatedly looked for an agency reporter who had already put out a story that the scrap could be about Iraq...
...said the diplomat. "Our only demand is that Iraq's natural resources should be utilized equally by all the Iraqi people" - a coded demand that the Kurds should not be given control of the northern oilfields...
...decidedly scruffy figures, as hordes of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen turned up for an emergency council of states bordering Iraq. Saudi Arabia had invited the foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and also Egypt and Bahrain for a meeting to "crystallize a common stand", as its top diplomat Prince Saud al-Faisal put it, on the momentous events in their neighborhood...
...wonder, why can’t Harvard keep itself and its professors out of trouble? It’s too late for Kissinger, but perhaps Summers ought to reevaluate the impeccable logic of working with a war criminal as a fellow diplomat. Plenty of wealthy and prestigious institutions manage to stay afloat without turning themselves into ivory bunkers manned by the certifiably wicked and/or corrupt. Maybe Harvard should get a task force going to look into how it’s done. Here’s a tip: Once they’ve been ruined, don?...