Word: path
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...their ways of dealing with the problem remain poles apart. The Europeans are trying to negotiate a deal that takes account of what they deem Tehran's legitimate security concerns - i.e. fear of being attacked and toppled - and offers Iran guarantees and incentives to stay off the nuclear path. Fine, says the Bush administration. We hope that works, but don't expect us to be part of it. But the U.S. is, rightly or wrongly, the very personification of Iran's security concerns, and any deal offered to Tehran is meaningless without Washington's involvement...
...resolutions, while the Iran matter hasn't even gone to the UN yet. The operative word, of course, is ?yet.? Rice made clear that the U.S. intends to take the matter there, and has been lobbying to unseat IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei to help ease the path to refer Tehran to the Security Council. ElBaradei has refused to endorse Washington's charge that Iran is covertly running a weapons program, despite demanding more transparency and cooperation from Tehran. But the Europeans are opposing Bush administration efforts to unseat him, perhaps more mindful than the Bushies are of just...
...UNCRITICAL OF WHAT MANY SEE AS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S MOVES TOWARD AUTHORITARIANISM? We all want to see a strong, prosperous and democratic Russia. I think President Putin is on the right path to get there...
...plausible to think of happiness not as a state of mind or a state of the pocketbook, but as an actual sovereign state? Many surveys lead us down that path. In study after study on national happiness levels, my country, the Philippines, gets unlikely top scores. The World Values Survey published by the University of Michigan last November ranked 82 countries and territories according to feelings of "subjective well-being"?which combined its happiness and "life-satisfaction" scores?and the Philippines had one of the highest ratings in Asia, above far richer locations such as Taiwan, Japan and South Korea...
...thought to be odd even by Kim family standards and unfit to rule. The apparent deal breaker occurred in 2001 when he was caught trying to sneak into Japan on a Dominican passport so he could visit Tokyo Disneyland. In 2002, state media seemed to be clearing a path for one of Kim's younger sons by boosting the profile of Ko, but her death last year, reportedly of cancer, may have thrown the succession into confusion again. In November, South Korean intelligence revealed that Kim had sacked his powerful brother-in-law Jang Song Taek, husband...