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...their ways of dealing with the problem remain poles apart. The Europeans are trying to negotiate a deal that takes account of what they deem Tehran's legitimate security concerns - i.e. fear of being attacked and toppled - and offers Iran guarantees and incentives to stay off the nuclear path. Fine, says the Bush administration. We hope that works, but don't expect us to be part of it. But the U.S. is, rightly or wrongly, the very personification of Iran's security concerns, and any deal offered to Tehran is meaningless without Washington's involvement...
Fasten your seat belts, we may be in for a bumpy ride. Even before it opens next month at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), "Speed, Style and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection" is producing wary reactions. The Boston Globe has predicted that MFA director Malcolm Rogers will get a hard time from his critics, not for accepting Lauren's automobiles, but for succumbing to his public relations machinery. Art critics and museum professionals have in the past accused Rogers of pandering to popular taste to pump up admission figures, and of cashing in on the museum...
...fine antenna for the political mood were all you needed to create a successful consumer brand, Tawfik Mathlouti would be a happy man by now. Mathlouti is a French Muslim lawyer who vigorously opposes U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and believes the world should protest it by boycotting American products. In the fall of 2002, he began marketing Mecca-Cola, a distinctly non-American imitation of Coca-Cola, in France, Britain and elsewhere in Europe...
...meantime, the FDA keeps plugging along. It's a small agency with a fine old tradition dwarfed in both budget and political power by the pharmaceutical giants it is being asked to police. It's going to take more than a three-day hearing to straighten that out. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr. and Mark Thompson/Washington and Alice Park/New York
...time, Sneddon acknowledged that his comments would likely draw a fine from the ECAC...