Word: facto
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...running with the hares (Dear Leader and company), sometimes hunting with the hounds (Bush's posse). That, too, should change soon. Beijing has a lot to lose if the talks it has been hosting break down, and even more is at stake if North Korea emerges as a de facto nuclear power on China's doorstep. If Beijing has to carry a little more of North Korea's heavy water, China will be that much more likely to pressure Pyongyang with words and by withholding...
...front of the rest of the league with just three games to play. Since the Crimson and the Quakers face off on Nov. 13, at least one of the teams will finish with no worse than two losses, once again making that Harvard-Penn showdown in Philadelphia the de facto conference title game...
...campaign claimed vindication by focusing on Saddam's intent. The report showed how Saddam was "gaming" the U.N., Bush said, by using the oil-for-food program to undermine sanctions. Far from being containable, as Kerry suggested, the report concluded that "Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime," which would have allowed Saddam to break loose and rearm. But the report also noted that Saddam "had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions." As former inspector David Kay noted on the Today show, Saddam...
...understood by negotiators on both sides of the Oslo process. The security wall is a case in point: The initiative to build a wall separating Israel from the Palestinians originated with the Labor Party, and was initially opposed by Sharon's party because it was envisaged as a de facto border fence built on, or close to the "Green Line" demarcating the 1967 border between Israel and the West Bank. Sharon's genius was to make the popular idea his own by changing its route to fold in most of the West Bank territory he'd like to keep...
Does the band have any qualms about serving as a de facto 7:15 wakeup call for a portion of the Harvard population...