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...financial might. In order to accomplish that, they had to throw certain bones to the people. But then they set about converting that economic power back into political power, at the same time withdrawing some of those bones they had thrown. And the people are too exhausted to resist...
...frame of what might be acceptable to the West. For example, a separate Albanian territory in Macedonia was a non-starter, so instead the guerrillas announced that they were simply demanding greater civil rights in the Macedonian constitution. And that responsiveness to Western concerns makes them unlikely to resist disarmament altogether - after all, the current peace deal has been crafted precisely in order to remove the political grievances they cite in order to claim legitimacy for their insurgency. In a pointed message to the guerrillas last week, U.S. mediator James Pardew said the conclusion of the political agreement meant that...
...While Sister Walsh and the Vatican are not at all pleased with the goings on at rentapriest.com, not everyone in the Church shares their point of view. Louise Haggett remembers the time she shared a ride from the airport with a bishop. She couldn?t resist posing an ostensibly rhetorical question. "What would you do," Haggett began, "if we put a married priest in your parish?" The bishop replied gravely, "Well, I?d have to put an end to it, I suppose." Haggett pressed on. "But what if no one complained?" she asked. The bishop paused before answering sotto voce...
...something out there. Goldman Sachs kicked off the action Monday by running with the semiconductor bulls and declaring that the sector was definitely at a bottom. "The recovery writing is on the wall," the company wrote Monday morning, "and we don't see how investors will be able to resist the inflection point...
...That kind of cooperation, he says, is indicative of a new role for Hillary: "People are starting to treat her like one of the boys." And if that treatment means fitting in at one of the oldest and most powerful boys? clubs in the country, Clinton probably won?t resist...