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...they say violated the law against political demos on the day before elections. Aznar won't testify until October. Zapatero said last week he would be willing to testify if called, though he told TIME he thought the request "verges on the ridiculous" since he sees the commission's remit as probing the terrorist attack, not the election. Chirac and Schröder don't see involvement in Iraq as a litmus test for antiterrorist resolve. But both their governments reacted with notable reserve when Zapatero called the U.S. occupation "a disaster" and "a huge mistake," then yanked his troops...
...differences in the run-up to the war, the international community cannot afford to lose Iraq. We can't let that country develop into a failed state. We have to support the Iraqi interim government. Commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq, and possibly Darfur, take NATO far outside its original remit. Is NATO becoming the world's peacekeeper? NATO is about collective security and collective defense. To do that, we need a huge transformation agenda. Afghanistan is logistically very complicated and far away from home. But NATO has made a commitment. Why? Because if we do not fight threats far away...
...Church-run institutions. Amidst the fury, the inquiry's chairman, Justice Mary Laffoy, announced her resignation Tuesday. The commission is investigating 1,800 cases of alleged abuse that span six decades. Education Minister Noel Dempsey defended the decision to change the inquiry's remit, saying that at its current rate of progress, it would run up legal costs of $220 million and take up to 10 years to publish its findings. Laffoy gave no reason for her resignation, but had previously criticized the government for failing to cooperate fully with the investigation. See Also: "We Know You Hurt Your Kids...
...each subsequent step was repudiation of part of my Reformation heritage: first, acceptance of Church tradition; second, recognition of all seven sacraments; third, the transubstantiation of the bread and wine fully into Christ’s body and blood; fourth, purgatory and indulgences, the power of the Church to remit punishment there; fifth, papal supremacy; and finally papal and conciliar infallibility in matters of faith and morals. I was not destroying my upbringing, however, but fulfilling it. My personal history had both prepared me for this day and had, at the same time, all but fully inoculated me against...
Unshackled from their government moorings and given a remit to compete, many of Britain's utilities in the 1990s took the decade's "growth is good" mantra to heart and morphed into conglomerates. Some reached beyond their own sectors for opportunities, expecting to apply their management skills to marginally related businesses. That's how energy company Scottish Power ended up owning a water company, a telecom and 160 electronics shops, as well as hawking financial-services. But the expected "synergies" of such diverse companies never fully developed, and Scottish Power's earnings - as well as its share price...