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Shot glasses reading “Give peace a shot” also sold quickly, as did “Party like it’s 1948” beer mugs—referring to the year Israel became a sovereign country. More than 30 shot glasses and 30 mugs had been sold in the first few hours after they went on sale Friday morning...
...extended for generations to come. Since 1969, when the BBC was graciously permitted to film the Windsors "at home" - who can ever forget their picnic on a grouse moor? - they have thought they could control the terms on which they revealed themselves, and hence shape a "modern" relationship between sovereign and people. It's been a disastrous policy, one that hit its nadir (for now) with suspicions that the Queen intervened to stop the trial of Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, because of royal fears that Burrell might tell stories about wrongdoing inside the Palace. After the trial had ended...
...free Kurdistan could place pressure on Turkey to improve its treatment of the Kurds, demanding, for instance, the implementation of newly passed laws that finally allow Kurdish-language schools and broadcasts. Faced with the possible population transfer of a large portion of its population, and faced with a new, sovereign political rival, Turkey’s treatment of its Kurdish population would have to improve...
...Taliban chief Mullah Omar - with limited success. The idea of targeting terrorist quarry from the skies far beyond the open battlefields of Afghanistan is, of course, a different proposition. And it's unlikely to become a norm. That's because it only really becomes feasible in situations where the sovereign power is either both hostile to the U.S. and unable to police its own airspace (as was the case in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan), or else where it is unable to enforce its own writ, as in Yemen and one or two other weak states such as Somalia. If U.S. intelligence...
...during British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit, some analysts believe he wanted Russia's contracts protected in return for support on any U.N. action. "But is it actually within his authority to make that promise?" asks Manouchehr Takin of the Centre for Global Energy Studies. "Iraq is a sovereign state, and just because Saddam was in power when these deals were made doesn't mean they're invalid." Yet Takin believes that after any war with Iraq, U.S. firms would be keen to fight for new deals and renegotiate old ones. And no one is taking bets...