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HOLLIDAY My predecessor said we can't take the leadership role we have in the world if we don't find ways of reducing the amount of stuff we put out in the environment. And we're not reducing pollution in the U.S. by increasing it someplace else. We operate with the same standards in China, India or Turkey that we do in the U.S. In the late '90s we had meetings with activist groups. Jimmy Carter came in for a round of the dialogues. It became so obvious from those talks that there were big problems to be solved...
...Social Democrats - both of which are undergoing painful internal shakedowns. Hosting Chirac in Berlin last week, she aligned Germany with France in criticizing Britain's budget proposals. But Chirac knows that she may not feel bound to knuckle under to France in defending agricultural subsidies the way her predecessor did. HAPLESS BARROSO Even before former Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso became Commission President in November 2004, he was a controversial choice. His liberal politics, and his presence in George W. Bush's "New Europe" coalition in Iraq, always raised doubts in France. This mistrust was exacerbated earlier this...
...wonder governments have been more circumspect in their response. After the new German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, discussed the matter with Rice in Washington earlier this week, his boss, new German Chancellor Angela Merkel, took the carrot approach where her predecessor might have preferred the stick. "I think we can trust ... that the US government is taking European concerns seriously," she told parliament, "and that quite soon (it) will clarify the recent reports on alleged CIA prisons." British Foreign Minister Jack Straw, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, formally asked Rice to address "parliamentary and public concerns" over...
After returning from a trip to South America that was widely characterized as a failure, President George W. Bush tried a new tactic. For his weeklong swing through Asia, he adopted a role that paid dividends for his predecessor--the President as tourist. Bush had always resisted sightseeing, spending just seven minutes touring the Kremlin, for instance. But last week his itinerary bristled with excursions outside official halls. The stops had a theme: he made a series of leisurely visits to religious sites, including a gold-leafed Buddhist temple in Japan and an ancient Korean pagoda. White House officials tell...
...establish.The amendment, which is being proposed by UC leaders, calls for the creation of an independent Student Events Committee (SEC), whose job description sounds remarkably similar to that of the current CLC. We have little reason to believe that the SEC will substantially correct the failings of its predecessor, and we suggest instead that the proposed funding for the SEC be disseminated among House Committees (HoCos) and the First Year Social Committee (FYSC), as well as perhaps the ever-needy prefect program. Given the recent successes of the Office of the Dean of the College, we strongly encourage the office?...