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...would encourage separatism among ethnic minorities in their own countries. Differences within the E.U. not only undermine the unity the West has been keen to uphold, but also could complicate the E.U.'s appointed task of helping to administer an independent Kosovo. "It is Europe that would pay the price if the status process fails," the E.U.'s Enlargement Commissioner, Olli Rehn, has stated, adding that the issue should be settled "not by unilateral declarations or unilateral veto threats, but by effective and responsible multilateralism." But multilateralists have to pull together, so officials from the U.S., France...
...countrymen may not mind: Putin's approval ratings run above 70%. But there are some things he cannot control--the international market for oil and natural gas, for instance. High prices have kept Russia's economy stable despite Putin's throttling of foreign investment and domestic small businesses. His bravado on the international stage, a key to his popularity at home, depends on Moscow's ability to project power, using natural gas and oil as its weapons. If that arsenal fails him because of worldwide price drops, it won't matter what his title is after the election. Putin could...
Last year, many students left school dismayed that the price of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which remained at the prohibitive cost of $154 per shot at Harvard University Health Services (UHS). We sure did. Last fall, the Harvard HPV Vaccine Awareness Campaign collected over 900 signatures in support of a Harvard-sponsored subsidy for the vaccine to make it more accessible to female students. After meeting with UHS officials, we felt certain that the doctors were committed to student health; yet, we feared that bureaucratic challenges within the Harvard institution would keep us from realizing the goal...
...deal, brokered by China, the price for North Korea's denuclearization is the U.S. taking regime change off the table and offering security guarantees and the phased normalization of economic and political relations with a regime currently on the U.S. list of nations sponsoring terrorism. Kim Jong Il's odious regime will thus survive (unless or until it collapses under its own weight) as the price for making the region considerably safer. A compromise, then, but as many diplomatic observers had long warned, the only deal possible to avoid confrontation...
...result of the removal of two of its key enemies, Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, and by virtue of its defiance of the U.S. In short, Iran is far from desperate to deal right now, and it would be inclined to make Washington pay an even higher political price than it did on North Korea for a "grand bargain...