Word: unionism
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...kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's both hypnotic and terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin act toddling around the globe, from China to Chile, Vietnam to the Soviet Union, simultaneously propping each other up and cutting each other down (Nixon called Kissinger his "Jew boy"; Kissinger referred to Nixon as "that madman," "the meatball mind" and "our drunken friend...
...author's own life gets interesting. Yearning for someone to watch over her, she plays along when friends jovially offer to arrange a marriage - and suddenly finds herself wed to Samer Khan, a moody former mujahedin fighter with whom she has virtually nothing in common, including a language. The union heads for the rocks when Rodriguez learns he has a wife, newly pregnant, in Pakistan. Yet Khan rises to the challenge, facing down murderous husbands, malignant bureaucrats and other perils to keep Rodriguez sane and the school running, at least for a while...
Earlier this year, the BBC unearthed some startling documents in the British National Archives. The papers, which dated back to the Suez crisis in 1956, documented a proposal by Guy Mollet, France's Socialist Prime Minister of the time, to create a union between France and Great Britain. When his British counterpart, the Conservative Anthony Eden, flatly rejected the idea, Mollet suggested that France could instead become a member of the British Commonwealth...
...European Reform, a London-based think tank. He believes Sarkozy, Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel could create a new triumvirate of power at Europe's core. All three, he says, "are Atlanticist, economically liberal - more or less - and take a pragmatic rather than ideological approach to the European Union and its institutions...
...Guards, A Union in Sight (Nov. 16, 2006): AlliedBarton and the Service Employees International Union reach an agreement permitting the guards to organize for the first time since the University outsourced their jobs two years prior, a change that signaled a hard-fought victory for the guards and student activists...