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Women from whose loins I sprang...
...summit's secretary-general, hopes ordinary people will force politicians to live up to the obligations articulated at Rio. He plans to make his own contribution to this grass-roots movement by heading an Earth Council, which he sees as a watchdog organization like the Helsinki Watch groups that sprang up after the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. The Earth Council's goal would be to ensure that institutions such as the Sustainable Development Commission actually do their...
...They will not get me up in the morning, dress me, give me words to say, tell me what to do and where to go." Rollins will run the day- to-day campaign while Jordan concentrates on strategy and themes. Demonstrating what are increasingly formidable political skills, Perot sprang the announcement the day after the California primary, thereby eclipsing what should have been Bill Clinton's afterglow of triumph. "I think one of the challenges for Ed and myself," said Jordan, "is not to try to fix something that's not broken...
...what gave birth to communism in the first place: the social upheavals and new poverty brought about by the Industrial Revolution, troubles that preceded its immense benefits. The man-made calamities of the capitalist free market constituted, as it were, acts of God without God. The socialist movements that sprang up in protest were animated partly by Luddite rage, partly by the dreams of a just and stable society, a New Jerusalem. These dreams have not been eradicated by their devastating practical failure...
...change of heart was leaked. White House officials explained that the new policy aimed to put Washington "in the front of the pack" diplomatically, ahead of European countries that had been hinting at quick recognition for Ukraine if Bush dawdled. But the Europeans were angry that Washington sprang the decision without consulting them, an accusation U.S. officials denied. "Bush is panicking for votes," said a senior German diplomat. "Let us hope this is not a harbinger of things to come...