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Russia, for its part, continues to insist that by allowing Kosovo to break away without the U.N.'s approval, the West is violating international law. Western officials counter that after experiencing the horrors of former Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, it is pointless to expect that Albanians would ever again agree to live under Belgrade...
...That may be so - but as long as there is demand for biodiesel, it seems unrealistic to expect Indonesia to stop converting forests into plantations. These days, Riau's main highway is clogged with trucks carting processed palm oil from local refineries to the Sumatran port town of Dumai. Outside one house, not far from the provincial capital of Pekanbaru, a woman weighing out heavy red palm fruit on a scale in her front yard says her family used to only sell fruit from their 200 palm trees. But with the high prices palm oil fetches these days, she says...
...YouTube format was Romney, who denigrated the notion of taking questions from an animated snowman (on global warming, naturally), as the Democrats did. But now Matt Rhoades, Romney's communications director and a man with a talent for euphemism, calls the forum an "opportunity" and says "we expect some colorful questions but also expect a substantive debate...
...Katie Levinson, Giuliani's spokeswoman, says, "Rudy is looking forward to the debate... Hopefully, they'll leave the talking snowman at home this time!" And braced for anything, Thompson's adviser Karen Hanretty says, "We don't know what to expect." Still, all the campaigns want to be known as hip, web-savvy, fearless and pro-Florida, making saying "yes" an easy choice once a new date could be agreed...
...country's nuclear program, Fahima repeated Iran's insistence that it is seeking atomic power only for civilian purposes. Moreover, he said he doubts that the United States can resolve key regional issues in the Middle East, including Iraq and Lebanon, without the help of Iran. "We don't expect the superpower will attack," Fahima concluded. "But if they do, I am sure the Holy See would not be favorable to such a choice...