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...conference to cut the Gordian knot of global warming, and the U.S. is keeping its greenhouse gas treaty bottom line close to its chest. "We are close to a solution," claimed the Argentine chairman Raul Estrada, who is preparing a draft agreement for industrial nations ? but that doesn't jibe with China?s intention to nix anything that inhibits its economic growth. Many senators have already said they won't ratify any treaty that doesn't have China's name...
Radcliffe would have finished even higher had it not been for an unfortunate disqualification during the final A division race. Senior captain Laura Sterns was deemed by the race judge to have hit another boat at the jibe mark--the second buoy of the triangle-shaped course--even though the team felt that the judge had caught the wrong boat...
...idea that Asian-Americans are not a minority didn't jibe with her. "Any group that doesn't yet receive full benefits from society, that faces an ongoing history of being excluded from equal social and political membership, is a minority," she says. "It's a complex issue for Asian-Americans themselves...
...brings to this a passion for problem solving and cutting through diplospeak. When she sits down with her senior aides each morning, they reel off two-minute reports on North Korean famine, the chemical-weapons treaty pending in Congress, the hostage standoff in Peru. "How does our policy jibe with Peruvian policy?" she demands as she prepares for a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori. "I'm fascinated to know what's happening inside that embassy...
With all the brilliant thinkers of our Movement, never has anyone felt that we've achieved our goal of developing precepts which fully jibe with modern life while maintaining just the right level of attachment to tradition. We expect in the future to continue to adapt to further changes in culture...