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...campaign to portray the scandals as an attempt to besmirch the Pope and discredit the church as a whole. "Over recent days some people have sought, with considerable persistence ... [to] personally involve the Holy Father in questions of abuse," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a written commentary. Another senior official goes further. "They want to involve the Pope at all costs," he tells TIME. "It's a desire to destroy the church, and this is an operation that has been well planned. They don't like the church's teachings on moral questions and sexuality, and this...
...states holding a democratic referendum prior to signing up to the treaty. Like most countries, the British government did not hold a referendum, and the government signed up to the treaty on our behalf. Little wonder then that many Europeans remain uninterested in these new positions, and that senior politicians in European countries have not put themselves forward for appointment. Foreign policy run by the E.U.? No thank you. If you are looking for the E.U. to act as a major political bloc at the international negotiating table, I think that you will have a long wait...
...quote a senior Asian official in your article: "they talk to each other endlessly," and, "they are very clubby." To be honest, worse things can be said about a union between nations that had been at war with each other for the better part of two millennia. All in all, I am happy that the E.U. is beautifully diverse and relatively humble. (Read: "The Incredible Shrinking Europe...
...could redo it all, we would try to negotiate and structure the guarantee differently. "There are other bargaining chips in lieu of or to reduce the personal guarantee that banks may not go out of their way to reveal," says Michele Dean, senior vice president at Bethpage Federal Credit Union in Bethpage, N.Y. These chips include pledging accounts receivable and asking for a guarantee that gets smaller each year as you build a credit history...
Also traveling with the president were Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, senior advisor David Axelrod, and national security aides Tom Donilon, Ben Rhodes and Denis McDonough...