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...seems like a union of two. last week, for instance, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder left other members of the European Union out in the cold when they topped a meal at the Elysée Palace with a deal that could shape the Union for decades to come. They proposed an unwieldy double presidency as a way to make the E.U. more democratically legitimate, transparent and efficient. This is not the first time that the holder of the six-month rotating presidency of the European Council, currently Greece, looked on from the peanut...
...shape of the deal emerging as South Korea takes the leading role in talking to Pyongyang involves a return to the fundamentals of the 1994 Clinton agreement - the North Koreans agree to refrain from developing nuclear weapons and are offered food and energy aid as part of a process aimed at "full normalization of political and economic relations." The reason South Korea is trying to revive that deal is that it broke down at both ends: The North Koreans sought new ways of producing weapons-grade nuclear fuel via centrifuges, and trashed the spirit of rapprochement by test-firing missiles...
...varsity football team at Claremont High School had not played a real home game for 50 years. The grass field at the school, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, was always in terrible shape, trampled by exercise classes, marching bands and other sports teams. So the football team played its "home" games on the field of another school in town. All the while, Claremont High spent as much as $20,000 a year maintaining its own sorry turf...
...message of a choreographed weeklong roll-out that will also feature Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Commerce Don Evans. "This is not about negotiating with the Hill," Bush insisted in a video conference call with his economic team as they tugged on the remaining questions about the shape of the package. "This is about doing what's right for the economy." He convinced his staff. Now he has to convince the country. --By John Dickerson
...There was something about that event and sitting by the river at the end of that trip a couple weeks later, and thinking, ‘I left the river to do something,’” he says. “I could see a shape to the previous fifteen years, this sort of shape of my adult choices: trying to make a family, trying to make a career, trying to have life in the world. I was unaware that that’s why I had left the river, but that was clearly the reason...