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...Those realities will continue to hamper any push for fresh sanctions. The current plan calls for additional pressure on several fronts. Last month, the U.S. unveiled new financial sanctions against Iran that take a page from the playbook Washington used - successfully, in its view - to force North Korea to shut down its nuclear-weapons program. Specifically, the Treasury Department barred U.S. companies from dealings with three Iranian banks, as well as several companies the U.S. claims are in the WMD-proliferation business. According to intelligence reports, these companies are controlled by, or linked to, high-ranking officials in Tehran, including...
...Africa become good Africa? Ari de Carvalho, a board member of ANIP, Angola's private-investment agency, thinks so. "Right now [the boom] benefits those who finance and carry out the projects," he admits. "But it will benefit the people in the long term." That's a minority view. Another Luanda-based observer says a change of course would require a change of government, but Angola's President Jos Eduardo dos Santos has not held an election since 1992. The observer describes the state as a ship heading for the reef of authoritarianism, corruption and popular discontent--a pattern seen...
...establish themselves in the minds and wallets of college students has raised some eyebrows and a few questions. Are these student representatives a welcome presence on campus, and do they add something valuable to the undergraduate experiences of their peers?Or can it be that they are simply viewed like the young women handing out gum in front of CVS: faceless figures doing the work of impersonal and (ironically enough) generic brand names, adding to the overly commercial feel of college life? Perhaps this “ridiculously long lasting gum” (the Stride slogan) has finally overstayed...
...demagogues. They oppose the idea of a national apology for past treatment of the Aborigines--a deserved and, in liberal opinion, an essential gesture of goodwill--by saying all this happened in their grandfathers' time, and the living bear no responsibility for it. This is Prime Minister Howard's view too, although--significantly enough--he is quick to drape himself in the nobler emblems of Australian history with which his generation had nothing to do, such as the heroism of the soldiers at Gallipoli...
...With Müntefering gone, Steinmeier, Beck and Merkel herself are expected to pay more attention to the coming elections than to securing Germany's economic well-being. "With this event, the centrifugal forces that will tear this coalition apart have come into full view," wrote the left-wing Berlin daily Tageszeitung. "Müntefering's retreat from politics is coming at a particularly bad time," added Die Welt, a center-right daily. "Müntefering was the most effective anchor keeping the SPD from drifting to the left. Now the Grand Coalition will no longer concentrate on their similarities...