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...leader and a key architect of Zapatero's reforms, finds such qualms misplaced. "Marriage has always been used as a political tool: slaves couldn't marry, blacks couldn't marry whites. There was even a law in the 15th century that comedians couldn't marry because they weren't serious. If your rights don't have the same name, they don't have the same protection or the same standing." Zerolo, whose wedding was one of the approximately 10,000 gay marriages licensed under the new law, is proud to see Spain catapult itself from behind the curve to ahead...
...unsettling in a national context. Then again, if a number of things went wrong in Florida, just as many things actually went right: except for the initial substation breaker, the system responded - and was back up in a matter of hours - as it should have, perhaps preventing a more serious outage that could have lasted well into the dark night. "This certainly raised a red flag about Florida's vulnerability, if not the nation's," says Twomey. "But in the end the system worked as it was supposed to." In other words, South Florida's electrical grid proved...
Baghdad has said repeatedly that it cannot control PKK rebels, and therefore cannot be held responsible for their cross-border raids into Turkey. But that admission of weakness means that the Turks are unlikely to take Iraq seriously as an independent state that might take aggressive steps to defend its sovereignty - a situation that may have serious consequences in the near future when critical and petroleum-rich areas like Kirkuk may come increasingly under the sway of Iraq's regional Kurdish government...
...similar drama played out in December, when the Turkish government responded to PKK attacks with a series of air strikes in northern Iraq. But the scale of this month's fighting, along with Turkey's use of significant ground forces, has provoked a more serious crisis. Several thousand Turkish troops have entered several miles into northern Iraq, and with reinforcements moving south through Turkey the operation does not seem to be winding down. According the Turkish military's website 24 of its soldiers and 230 PKK guerrillas have been killed since the operation began...
...Daniel Price, the Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, told reporters in Paris that the U.S. would be willing to accept mandatory international limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Coming from an Administration that has steadfastly resisted mandatory caps, withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol and effectively derailed any serious global effort to slow climate change, this could have been a big deal. But as is so often the case with the Bush Administration's environmental policies, the devil is in the details...