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...supply has to be at least on informal probation at a meeting of the world's industrial democracies." Reunification Other neighbors are uncomfortable, too. Russia and Germany agreed in the final days of Gerhard Schröder's Chancellorship to build a pipeline bypassing Poland - thus making it possible to turn off energy supplies to Poland without affecting Germany. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski likened the deal to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact carving up his country on the eve of World War II. He was more diplomatic in an interview with Time last week, saying: "I'm glad Russia...
...took out the facts, it looks like we're talking about a Third World dictatorship," says Jay Stewart, executive director of Chicago's Better Government Association, a nonpartisan watchdog group formed in the 1920s out of concern for the rising influence of mobster Al Capone...
...Kate and her sister will have little of this, as they become aware that they are not complete foreigners in Asia. Being in a category now popularly deemed "third-culture kids," the girls recognize that they come from "that other world, the West" and "know its stories, its heroes and heroines." But they also realize that they are somehow different: no longer completely from either the West or the East. Having grown used to "the heat, the jungle, the loneliness," of life in Hong Kong, they are still kept at a distance and referred to as "gwaimui, white ghost girl...
...runner-up, garners the largest percentage of votes ever by a third-party candidate. In the fall of 1913, T.R. travels to South America, where he gives lectures and explores Brazil's "River of Doubt." He nearly dies, but later says, "I had to go. It was my last chance to be a boy." After he returns to the U.S., war breaks out in Europe, and the Panama Canal opens to traffic. The U.S. enters World War I in April 1917; 15 months later, T.R.'s son Quentin, 20, is killed in France. Devastated, Roosevelt declines to run (again...
...more glaring: The American midfielder, who had been splendid in the first two games, committed one of the worst kinds of mistakes - being caught in possession in his own third of the field. Reyna was stripped of the ball by Haminu Dramani, whose shot gave U.S. goalie Kasey Keller no chance, leaving a 1-0 deficit that the Americans could tie once but never erase. They crashed out of the World Cup, 2-1, on a disputed penalty call in injury time of the first half despite scoring their first goal in the run of play...