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...TIME: Can you achieve a compromise agreeable to everyone?TSANG: We have to. I'm appealing to the democrats, I'm appealing to everybody. I have, I hope, a reasonable feel of the people of Hong Kong on this subject. And I have some experience of dealing with this matter with the central government. So perhaps I'm the only person able to do this deal...
...must support the coalition in Iraq. It doesn't matter how much of a mistake we think we made going in. We have to stick around and clean up the mess. If the coalition were to pull out now, it would leave behind a very unstable, weak nation at the mercy of its neighbors. Iran considers itself the new big dog in the yard and is fueling the civil war in Iraq. How long would it be before Iran moves in for the kill? If it were allowed to take over Iraq, it would be the most powerful nation...
...seas, seizing goods it defined as contraband and sailors it defined as British deserters. But America had its own imperial dreams: the war's supporters were nicknamed war hawks because of their constant birdlike calls for "Canada, Canada, Canada." Former President Jefferson thought conquering Canada would be "a mere matter of marching." Federalists were appalled. Gouverneur Morris, the peg-legged ladies' man who had drafted the Constitution, declared that a war of choice fought for such reasons was "founded in moral wrong"; anyone who supported it would be guilty of "impiety...
...time in life. You are making a lot of decisions about what kind of person you are going to be," says Vera Garrity, 24, a Young Heroes and City Year alumna now in her second year at the University of Virginia Law School. "After being in City Year, no matter what I do, I will always do service," says Garrity, who is planning a career in public-interest law. "After seeing people who are so committed and who are sacrificing so much or struggling so hard, it is impossible not to think about how you can help. It just becomes...
...Dubai Sports City complex. That's if he can get one at any price, because the delivery date for many luxury dwellings is a year or two away. "Things are booming and the boom will continue," says Boutros Boutros, an executive at Dubai's flagship corporation, Emirates Airlines. "No matter how fast we run, Dubai stays ahead...