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...Republicans, it has long been a goal to have every member of the former Warsaw Pact except Russia join NATO, and for Russia to become almost but not quite a member. The problem is that any alliance shrinks as its membership grows. It becomes less efficient because consensus is tougher to achieve, and certain goals are sacrificed to a lowest common denominator. But there's a certain victorious tinge to folding the Warsaw Pact into NATO. President Bush is in a good position to encourage those who want to join to come in, but whether this will actually happen...
...content and having Bush phone leaders with sneak previews. The allies appreciated the vagueness of the speech because it hinted that they may be able to influence the shield's final shape. The key to Europe's opposition is the lack of an ABM Treaty successor. If the ABM pact collapses, it must be replaced "only by better ones or more effective ones," German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said after Bush's speech. "We don't want there to be a new arms race." Playing their traditional roles, the British gave the strongest support to the Bush plan...
...Greg Burke:The primary reason for Berlusconi's clear-cut victory is that the mainstream party of the left ran without concluding an election pact with the smaller parties of the left, particularly the reformed communists. The left won the last election precisely because they had an agreement with the communists, but this time the left vote was fractured. That was the central reason for the change. The final results are not yet in, so it's difficult to judge, but many on the left are saying they still won the popular vote. Italy's system is very strange - last...
...they wore that fateful last gathering all those cutting rooms ago. And Probst was there, and Colby (who had really hit the pantry in the interim), and Tina, because in the hour before (in Television Time, that is) the cowboy and the nurse had entered into some weird suicide pact...
...greeting that President Bush received at his first trade summit in Quebec--tear gas and rioters--was as much a reminder as those posters that trade has become an electric issue. Some of the points are legit: signing a country like Brazil to a trade pact could make it harder for Brazilians living with AIDS to get cheap counterfeit drugs. But there is also blind fury from parts of the world where trade is seen as a tool of imperialism, not modernization. It may be even harder to undo that perception than it is to ink agreements on trade. Unfortunately...