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...message: "President Bush has emphasized his desire to reinvigorate our relations across Europe," she said at the British Foreign Office in London, "to take our partnership to a new level of support and engagement." Those words have been heard before, but after the Iraqi vote they don't ring hollow. Rice also came bearing gifts, including the President's promise to spend $350 million to bolster Palestinian reforms. Bush last week praised the Palestinian Authority in his State of the Union address for "showing the power of freedom to break old patterns of violence and failure." German Chancellor Gerhard Schr...
...Bougainville Revolutionary Army have occupied a no-go zone around the vast Panguna copper mine. The villagers who fall inside his territory are denied essential services, and face a fragile security situation. Blundering by corporate jet into this dysfunctional society came an eccentric Australian businessman. His arrival brought hollow promises of multi-million-dollar business deals and benign health programs, and coincided with Musingku's growing influence over Ona. Says the head of the U.N. Observer Mission to Bougainville, Tor Stenbock: "Ona has lost touch with reality...
...going to take longer than we want. The boat is moving, but the boat is very heavy." Batasuna would like to have its political ban lifted in time to participate in regional elections in May. For that to happen, the party will need to do more than just make hollow pronouncements. The government in the Basque Country is no keener than that in Madrid to see Batasuna back on the hustings. Few people still believe that ETA's fight does anything to advance the cause of greater Basque autonomy. Batasuna could help its cause most by realizing that...
...afternoon. Barrie quickly befriends Sylvia Llewelyn Davies—played with daring and grace by Kate Winslet—and her four sons Michael, Jack, George and Peter to their mutual benefit; Barrie needs them for inspiration and to inject some warmth into what was rapidly becoming a hollow life and they need him to help them get over the recent death of Sylvia’s husband, the boys’ father. Occasionally, the tone can be a little too sweet and sentimental: this is not a movie for the hard of heart. However, like Peter Pan says...
...afternoon. Barrie quickly befriends Sylvia Llewelyn Davies—played with daring and grace by Kate Winslet—and her four sons Michael, Jack, George and Peter to their mutual benefit; Barrie needs them for inspiration and to inject some warmth into what was rapidly becoming a hollow life and they need him to help them get over the recent death of Sylvia’s husband, the boys’ father. Occasionally, the tone can be a little too sweet and sentimental: this is not a movie for the hard of heart. However, like Peter Pan says...