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...real significance of the revised Kyoto Accord lies less in its impact on the planet's climate than in the fact that it survived Washington's withdrawal. The determination of the nations of the industrialized world to hang in and negotiate a binding treaty even after it had been nixed by the "indispensable nation" suggests that we may have entered a new era in international affairs. And that it will be an era in which the U.S. will no longer be automatically granted the leadership role among Western nations it established during the Cold...
Congressmen don't usually hang around on the House floor any longer than they have to. But for Gary Condit, it may be the only sanctuary left. On Thursday afternoon, as the campaign-reform bill was crashing to earth, so did the rest of his life. At the back of the chamber, the California Congressman leaned on the rail, chatting and joking with the men and women who still treat him as a colleague. As the others wandered away one by one, Condit lingered for a while, all alone...
...Pain? Until fairly recently, a politician talking about hard times ahead in an election speech could just as well hang up his gloves. But this is Japan 2001?and this is Koizumi, who has turned bad news into political capital. He swept into power in April by telling Japanese voters what they already knew but rarely heard from their leaders: that their country was an economic mess. Yes, he pledged to clean it up?by getting rid of bad bank loans, privatizing government-run behemoths like the postal service and killing useless public-works projects. But he also warned that...
...democracy." In 1995, he was back onstage with You ANC Nothing Yet, followed by Truth Omissions in 1996. "I had to be careful to offend everybody equally," he explains with a twinkle in his eye. Still, times had changed in South Africa, and two years ago Uys decided to hang up his wigs in his home town of Darling, 100 km north of Cape Town. "I felt the moral high ground had been leveled," he says. But then, concerned by the "AIDS is from Venus and HIV is from Mars" stance of the government, Uys found himself on the road...
...awfully happy to just sit and talk and see her family together. Tea, seeing a musical, antiques shopping--those were my images of what old people want. Actually, they're just things I want to do and need a grandmother as an excuse, the way Bill Clinton likes to hang out with single guys. At some age, you just want to sit still with the people you love and bask in the wonder of routine. And hope that your snot-nosed grandson isn't talking too quickly and quietly on purpose because your hearing is fading and he's actually...