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...sites, or to blacklist inspectors believed to be spying for the U.S. Russia and Iraq's Arab neighbors will likely be doing their utmost to persuade Saddam that he has no alternative but to swallow whatever the UN demands. The Iraqi leader's own instinct will to use any discord between the U.S. and its allies to push back and play for time. And President Bush will be waiting - and not necessarily patiently - for Saddam to make...
...Despite the discord, and the inevitable banality of the Summit's centerpiece document, plenty is still achieved in and around these gatherings. They remain a key forum for sharing experiences and practical solutions to some of the epic problems on which governments can't agree, formalizing an emerging global 'civil society' to engage with common problems and search for working solutions. It is in the networking and the sharing of ideas in hundreds of smaller seminars and presentations that the real impact of the Johannesburg summit will occur. And the growing power of that global, non-governmental constituency of environmentally...
...Clearly, something is in play besides mere genes, and that something is environment. Raise a child in a steady and stable home, and you reduce the odds that the illness will gain a toehold, which is why counselors work hard to teach parents and kids how to minimize family discord...
...days after the Oval Office meeting, discord struck again. This time, Secretary of State Colin Powell asked Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill about his tour of Africa, which made front-page news largely because of O'Neill's travel companion, Irish rock star Bono. Again, Natsios grew upset, asserting his agency's prerogative to manage U.S. foreign economic assistance. At another point, Natsios told a group gathered for one of Powell's morning staff meetings that Bush wanted AID to handle foreign...
...discord suggests that the ongoing campaign in Afghanistan runs the risk of exacerbating ethnic tensions and warlord rivalries, which, in turn, work to the enemy's advantage. Shah-i-Kot has been the biggest battle of the war so far, but it's unlikely to be the last. Locals suspect that a number - U.S. commanders say it's less than 100 - of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters escaped Shah-i-Kot, and the Pentagon has warned that numerous pockets of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are dotted across southern Afghanistan. And with ethnic tensions on the rise, even...