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...seen Helen Clark's greatest strength, outside her ability to manage in our Mixed Member Proportional system, as being the role she played on the international stage. But there has to be the acknowledgment that, fundamentally, we're a very small country. In one sense, there's a limited sphere of influence. You could see it with the G20 in Washington: Australia was involved, New Zealand wasn't. That said, the view of New Zealand as a small but honest player gives it the ability to punch above its weight from time to time, and I'd continue to want...
...others were satrapies until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Never mind that all of them, with the exception of Ukraine, are now firmly embedded in E.U. and NATO; for Russia they are either the "near abroad" or what the tsars used to call Russia's "sphere of influence...
...have committed suicide if at the end of it they said “Well, this was not good enough to publish.” I would have been disappointed but I would not have killed myself.FM: What role should the African author play in the political sphere?Achebe: Well, I think the role is determined by the life that is going on around us at any moment. And the way one writer responds to this is always different from the way another writer responds. So it’s rather risky to lay down the law for writers...
...Hope rather than through the Suez Canal Zone, as its owners wanted to avoid an encounter with the pirates. "That is the scary part," says Cyrus Mody, manager at the International Maritime Bureau. "What exactly are [the pirates] doing so far south? If they are thinking of expanding their sphere of operations to such great distance, it is going to become an absolutely humongous task to get this thing under control. It does suggest that they are increasing their capacity to stay out at sea for a much longer period of time. They can just sit and wait until...
...misapplication of religious rhetoric and doctrine to political affairs creates this hostile, polar environment and even gradually alienates the religious. Religions are based on complex ideologies, far more intricate than simplistic moral absolutes that tend to rear their heads in the political sphere. Ironically, this means that, even in a climate of opposition, the secular and religious camps really ought to be able to agree on one thing: to preserve their separation...