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...purported attempts to start a direct dialogue. "It's not a serious diplomatic overture," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. Instead, Washington signed on last week to a European-backed package of proposed incentives and penalties for Iran, aimed at winning the support of Russia and China, which have veto power on the Security Council. But U.S. officials concede that they still haven't persuaded those countries to agree to impose sanctions if Iran fails to comply, leaving the allies with few remaining options for resolving the impasse diplomatically. That's why, in private, some European leaders, including German Chancellor...
...Tehran's announcement was timed to coincide with a meeting in New York between representatives of the five veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council to discuss an Anglo-French resolution - backed by the U.S. - that would threaten sanctions if Iran fails to halt enrichment. The meeting failed to achieve agreement, as China and Russia remained firmly opposed to a resolution even threatening sanctions. Moscow and Beijing are urging both sides to take more steps to cool the atmosphere of confrontation and seek a diplomatic compromise. But the prime target for a new diplomatic push from Iran, however...
...would vote for him for President in a New York minute. It's too bad he left Congress. Had he stayed, he would have pushed through the fiscal reforms that Republicans thought they were going to get when they elected Bush. The President would have had to use his veto early and often to keep Newt from eliminating a quarter of the federal programs and their related wasteful bureaucracies. And we would have already had a Mexican border fence. DARRELL HANSHAW Austin, Texas...
...issue, could turn this election into a national referendum. With the G.O.P.'s popularity gauge already down a couple of quarts, Rove was told that if the White House didn't do something, anything, about energy costs, Congress could put the President in the position of using his first veto to kill a windfall-profits tax on oil-company earnings. Says a G.O.P. strategist: "People just want the oil companies whacked...
...faculty gather to decide the tenure fates of junior professors.These ad hoc committee meetings—the final stage of a lengthy tenure process—sometimes devolve to “people yelling at each other,” one professor said. But one man ultimately holds veto power over all decisions: University President Lawrence H. Summers.Professors say Summers’ vocal involvement ensures the rigor of the tenure process overall and sets him apart from both his predecessors and his peers at other schools.“In some ways, it’s the most important thing...