Word: logjams
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...question is where we find the equilibrium between them." That doesn't sound like a shared vision for leading the E.U. toward the sunlit uplands. Still, it's a start. Certainly the Berlin meeting will be a cheery photo op. The Big Three could also try to break the logjam on voting weights that scuppered the constitutional talks in December, and they will likely produce small practical measures like liberalizing Europe's energy market and advancing a European patent board. Those are tiny steps for sure, but far better than marching backward - or beating each other bloody...
...Israelis? part, the renewed moves against Arafat express the frustration at their inability to break out of a strategic logjam that has made commonplace the spectacle of broken, bloodied bodies on the streets of Israel?s cities despite the best efforts of its military to kill the commanders and operatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade. Some argue that Arafat is the terror kingpin, that the whole Oslo enterprise was a tragic mistake that Israel now has an opportunity to rectify by turning back the clock 12 years. Others see him a cynical power broker...
...that Presbyterians, United Methodists and Evangelical Lutherans all have "substantial, active, gay faithful caucuses" that now will push to re-examine the question of gay clergy. In fact, Reverend Wright, who escorted "ecumenical observers" from other churches at last week's conference, said the prevailing view was that "a logjam had been broken...
...shown that such a crackdown would lead inexorably to statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. All of this, of course, is familiar ground. The Bush administration had hoped that twisting Yasser Arafat's arm to appoint Abbas would somehow break the logjam, but when Sharon met with Abbas and senior PA figures last Saturday, the change of faces on the Palestinian side of the table had not changed the basic stalled conversation...
...fluctuating toll may be partly due to regional statistical idiosyncrasies. In Hong Kong, for example, many of the recent fatalities were residents of Amoy Gardens, an apartment complex where at the end of March more than 200 people contracted SARS in a matter of days?producing a logjam of critically ill patients who are now beginning to die, as it takes several weeks for SARS to claim its victims. More unsettling are reports from several laboratories that the coronavirus responsible is mutating almost continuously as it spreads, raising the possibility that certain strains may be more vicious than others...