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...economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin recently floated the trapdoor position in an interview with the online environmental magazine Grist, but McCain quashed it in his Portland speech, promising action no matter what China does. "If the efforts to negotiate an international solution that includes China and India do not succeed," he said, "we still have an obligation...
...depressed," says Shervington, who is dedicated to Afghanistan and believes NATO can succeed, although not as quickly as he'd like. "What can you do? The easy thing would be to listen to the Taliban, and not go to Kajaki Olya anymore. The villagers are caught between us and the Taliban." He spreads his hands apart and smacks them together. "But we can't not go in. And we can't fight the Taliban, either. So we are caught...
Much rests on the outcome of an arbitration effort by a delegation of Arab foreign ministers set to begin in Beirut Wednesday. But few hold out much hope that the Arab delegation will succeed where months of Arab and international mediation to end the 18-month political crisis have led nowhere. "The negotiations are failing. The fighting will continue," predicts Asrawi of the SSNP...
Most hopefully, McCain was realistic about the need for the U.S. to take the lead internationally on cutting carbon emissions, even without other major industrializing nations. "If the efforts to negotiate an international solution that includes China and India do not succeed, we still have an obligation to act," he said. That was a remarkably un-Bush thing to say - the President has long refused to engage seriously on an international climate change regime unless China and India take on emission-reduction goals too - and indeed, it was McCain's implicit criticism of Bush that most stood out in this...
...team rebounded from a slow start in Providence on Saturday to finish in a three-way tie for first at the close of the first day of competition.And it all turned around when Harvard upset the favored Yale team, giving the squad the confidence it needed to succeed in the remainder of the weekend’s races.“The turning moment was when we beat Yale, a pretty good team, on Saturday,” senior Elyse Dolbec said. “We won the rest of our races [on Saturday] and found ourselves in a qualifying...