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...More importantly, with the exception of a confused statement from Japan, not one of the allies that had generally stood with the U.S. the past two weeks - Australia, Russia, Canada - rose in its defense. The near-total isolation of the U.S. on climate change - which had been building since its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol nearly a decade ago - was now obvious, apparently even to the U.S. Dobiansky turned to speak. "We've listened very closely to many of our colleagues here during these two weeks, but especially to what has been said in this hall today," she said...
...composing a symphony.Perhaps we can read in Said’s apparition a gloss to the collection’s title: in Said’s real posthumously published work “On Late Style,” he writes about artists whose work acquires a new idiom near the end of their lives, contending that “late-style Beethoven, remorselessly alienated and obscure, becomes the prototypical modern aesthetic form.”Are Gordimer’s “Beethoven” stories, in their formal and thematic abrasiveness, perhaps working towards such...
...chair of Harvard Students for Rudy, Rohan V. Prasad ’10, and four others are scheduled to meet Rudolph W. Giuliani himself at a small house party near Manchester. But even that incentive is not enough to tear die-hard undergraduate Giuliani fans from looming papers and midterms. As the mostly empty bus drives off, only one other Giuliani supporter is accompanying Prasad...
...other end, each animal's personality is categorized by shelter workers. The assessment tools include a four-minute hidden camera look at how a dog reacts to finding himself alone near a kitchen counter, bed or couch, with a trash can nearby. If the dog ignores the trash and hops right up on the bed, he's probably a Couch Potato, identified in the following way: "Like the easy life? I'm the perfect match for you, walking very short distances from the couch to the food bowl..." If instead she cruises the counter, she might be a Busy...
...Despite his feisty talk, Gaddafi is a near-perfect customer for Sarkozy, if not quite yet his savior. Flush with revenues from record-high oil prices, the Libyan leader is rebuilding his military virtually from scratch, since decades-long Western sanctions banned him from purchasing arms and replacing broken equipment. "Libya's military inventories during the embargoes degraded to the point of being useless," says Matthew Smith, economics analyst for Jane's, the London-based defense research group. The organization this week estimates Libya's military spending was about $620 million last year - small change for the gargantuan defense industry...