Word: kyoto
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...make serious investments in "human" intelligence--agents in place, stronger links with foreign intelligence services, many more agents trained in foreign languages. Our new Grand Strategy will also need to rethink how we use international agencies to buttress our goals. We have been skeptical about their utility, from the Kyoto global-warming protocol to the United Nations, but they also deserve improvement, fresh resources, better personnel and enhanced purpose. Above all, a shell-shocked America will need to understand that a Grand Strategy to preserve this richly varied democracy is not just a wartime matter but something that...
Several panelists criticized the maverick reputation the United States has developed under the Bush administration, which did not sign the Kyoto Protocol and did not participate in the Durban conference against racism...
...often feel, in the Land of the Rising Sun, as if I'm living in some overlit amusement arcade, in which every other car is called "Sunny" and even the supermarkets style themselves "Sun Plazas." In 1987, when I first arrived in Japan, an American teacher of English in Kyoto told me that when she asked her students to choose an adjective with which to describe themselves, she had to ban the use of the word "cheerful," or else every girl in class would select it. Accentuating the positive is an article of faith here...
...keenly attuned to the diversity of indigenous musical styles and traditions. Even so, Farley found he had a few things to learn about the international scene. When it came to Utada Hikaru, one of Japan's top singing stars, he "had always imagined her far away, in Tokyo or Kyoto. It was startling to find that she lives here in New York City...
...Powell was soon humbled again by what a former diplomat called "needless unilateralism" over Kyoto. White House rejection of the protocol just as he was heading to Europe to sell missile defense caught the Secretary by surprise. He doesn't disagree that the treaty is fatally flawed, "but the manner of handling it is another matter," says a top State official. As Powell told TIME, "That's one where, you know, I would have done it differently." His preference is not to ride roughshod over treaties that most of the globe supports if he can find a more subtle...