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...defense initiative, writing, "If the Bush administration expects Poles and Czechs to jump for joy and agree to whatever is proposed, it's going to face a mighty crash with reality. The administration might have gotten away with this five years ago, when the memory of Ronald Reagan's steadfast support for our freedom fighters had just been bolstered by American advocacy of NATO enlarge... But the war in Iraq has dented Central European trust." Many Poles are also upset at this week's apparent confirmation, in a report by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, that...
Opponents complain that Blair’s partnership with Bush left Britain empty-handed. At the Conservative conference last October, Opposition leader David Cameron asserted, "We must be steadfast, not slavish, in how we approach the special relationship [with...
...life - and now as he heads toward sainthood in the after-life - it's easy to forget that Pope John Paul II was widely and sometimes loudly criticized earlier in his pontificate. The jabs from inside and outside the Catholic Church often related to his steadfast opposition to abortion rights, refusal to sanction condom distribution in AIDS-plagued Africa and other stands linked to his traditionalist view of doctrine...
...steadfast consistency is slowly arising from the Malkin Athletic Center. The Harvard men’s volleyball team (4-2, 2-2 Hay), after winning two critical division games on the road, rolled along to their fourth straight victory last night, defeating visiting Rivier College (8-8) in four games (30-24, 30-25, 25-30, 30-18). Led by dominant performances from senior co-captain Laurence Favrot and sophomore middle hitter Brady Weissbourd, the Crimson took command over an under-matched Raider team early on with hitting percentages of .429 and .478 in the first two games...
...That perceived lack of solidarity from Washington - busy thanking Tokyo's rival Beijing for its decisive efforts at the talks - is especially galling given the Japanese government's steadfast support for the war in Iraq, up to and including President George W. Bush's recent "surge" in troop levels. But there are problems coming from Japan's side of the Pacific as well. Cheney pointedly did not find time to meet with Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma, who last month criticized the U.S. occupation of Iraq as a mistake, and termed Washington's attitude on intergovernmental negotiations over changing troop...