Word: progressives
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...Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, who made an emergency stop in Bali, that negotiations got kick started. The South Korean, in office for less than a year, is known as diplomatic even by UN standards, but he arrived without mincing words. "Frankly, I am disappointed at the lack of progress," said Ban to a packed audience. "Seize the moment, this moment, for the good of all humanity...
...massive American presence. They point out that Iraq's political leadership has failed to use the relative calm to engineer any real reconciliation between the majority Shi'ites and the Sunnis. While U.S. troops have battled al-Qaeda in Baghdad, Anbar and Diyala, the Iraqi Parliament has made little progress on critical legislation in more than a year. And partly because of massive government corruption, improvements in basic services like electricity, water and fuel have lagged behind security gains. Baghdad gets an average of eight hours of electricity a day, about half the prewar level. So while there...
...doesn't make the moral questions easier. And though I hope that stem-cell research will yield untold benefits, my excitement is muted - perhaps because I was a research chemist for more than 40 years. Only when we see giant corporations risk their dollars on research will we see progress. Joseph K. Valaitis, BRECKSVILLE, OHIO...
...will be a tough act to follow,” he said.After stepping down, Skocpol said she will go on leave to work on the projects she was unable to address during her tenure as GSAS dean—one of which will be following the progress of the Patriots as they make their Superbowl bid, she said with a laugh.And Skocpol had a few words of advice for her successor on Sunday.“You better be able to work hard and you better be able to handle data and making presentations to lots of audiences...
...Gore, it was time to utter a new inconvenient truth that diplomatic niceties precluded others from telling: "My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here," he told a packed audience at the U.N. climate change summit in Bali. "We all know that...