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...skepticism," says one European diplomat. After G-8 members met last week to devise a package of inducements and threats, reports emerged that Britain, France and Germany would offer Tehran new trade talks and access to Russian nuclear fuel, if the country halted its nuclear ambitions. Tehran appeared to reject the move. The Europeans had hoped their agreement with Iran last year to cease work on uranium enrichment - Tehran says it's for peaceful purposes - might lead to rapprochement. But "every time we went, there was another lie," says the diplomat. Meanwhile, buildings in Iraq full of equipment useful...
...unenthusiastic. Hard-line politicians are strengthening "parallel institutions" such as schools and hospitals in majority Serb areas to undermine Pristina's authority. Once talks begin, many Albanians expect Belgrade to push for partition of the province, leaving the majority Serb areas in the north under its control. But Albanians reject the idea. Western diplomats are also reluctant to redraw borders. They hope to meet Serb security concerns by granting them more local control over institutions like schools and the police. Mindful of his new responsibilities, Rexhepi agrees: "My message to Kosovar Serbs is, Kosovo is your land. But you have...
...give a "woman the right to have children and the protection of a man." These and other comments estranged a majority of the parliamentary committee, which voted first that he was ill-suited for that post, and then for the Commission altogether. In fact, Parliament can only approve or reject the Commission as a whole. But both the Socialists and Liberals are demanding that Barroso recast Buttiglione's role. "Barroso has to draw the consequences, and if he doesn't we'll vote against this Commission," says Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialist Group, the body's second largest. Will...
...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...