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...must make Russia a member of the E.U." The foreign ministers in the room were flabbergasted, according to a diplomat who was there, not only because Berlusconi was ignoring the issue at hand, but because he didn't seem to know that Russia wouldn't qualify for E.U. membership for decades. "Everybody thought it was like he'd never been exposed to real politics before," the diplomat says. "People couldn't take him seriously." Starting this week, Europe will have plenty of new chances to take him seriously. As the media tycoon turned Prime Minister assumes the E.U.'s rotating...
...Given that the Court has been so reluctant to revisit this issue - and spent several months mulling it over - both affirmative action opponents and supporters agree that this ruling firmly entrenches affirmative action in the law, at least until there is a radical change in the membership of the Court. For most colleges, the decision means that they can maintain their current admissions processes, which favor black, Hispanic and Native American applicants to ensure racial diversity. When the suits were filed, a few colleges stopped considering race at all in the admissions process, and it's likely they will adopt...
...often bureaucracies set up panels to deflect disputes rather than resolve them. It's too soon to tell for the IWC; its new unit has yet to get organized. Defeated pro-whalers are still grousing. But despite dark hints last week that it might now rethink its IWC membership, Japan - like Iceland - is likely to stay and fight. While the waters may have got chillier at the IWC, neither nation wishes to become a pariah or a pirate...
...1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join. It had simply been understood that you didn't put a Chinese up for membership... [The fear was that] after 20 or 25 years, the club would become 90% Chinese and 10% European...
...displeasure of many of his own people, has fiercely resisted the U.N. effort to find a solution - agreed to go along as an "experiment." Analysts say Turkey's support for the measure may be a step in the new, pro-Islamic government's long-term campaign to win E.U. membership. Alternatively, it could simply be an effort to buy time and ease political pressure that had been building on the island since massive anti- government protests broke out last year. Mehmet Ali Talat, head of the opposition Republican Turkish Party, which helped organize the protests, takes the latter view...