Word: pacts
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...comity as they formally signed accession treaties with 10 new members. "There was no crying, no fighting and no hand thumping," marveled European Commission President Romano Prodi. Chirac avoided any echoes of the brusque treatment he meted out in February toward the new members from the former Warsaw Pact. He also had a 25-minute t?te-?-t?te with Tony Blair. Apart from the still touchy and inchoate issue of the E.U.'s foreign and defense policy, the two have some common ground in pushing for an end to the rotating six-month presidency of the Union, which small states...
Perhaps the biggest challenge in defusing this situation is that North Korea wants strong security guarantees (i.e., a non-aggression pact from the U.S.) preceding its disarmament, but the U.S. and other powers hope to see active disarmament before making any agreements. Hopefully multilateral talks will result in each of the powers signing a firm non-aggression treaty contingent upon North Korea immediately ending its arms programs under intensive inspection and supervision. The security guarantee must be made while also avoiding further risk of appeasing Korea’s defiance. If the nations involved can remain firm while allowing North...
...Will Italy Join The Club? The European Commission warned that Italy may soon join Germany, France and Portugal, violating the stability and growth pact by wracking up debts greater than...
...reporters who were there, of whom I was one, covering the event for TIME, the noise was what seemed new. Surely these kids were louder, more frenzied, than Frank Sinatra's fans had ever been, or even Elvis Presley's. Sullivan made a pact with them before the show: Keep it down while other acts are on; otherwise you can do what you like...
...would two eminent biologists make a pact to avoid denouncing such a far-fetched idea? Indeed, design proponents have published exactly zero papers on their views in the major peer-reviewed scientific journals. The theory ranks alongside phrenology and geocentrism in its scientific usefulness, since the intelligence it postulates is entirely mysterious and cannot be observed or proven false. The reason for Dawkins’ and Gould’s non-debate pact is that “intelligent design” thrives on denunciations. Simply by debating them, scientists lend respectability to “intelligent design?...