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...Sierra Leone peacekeeping debacle will weigh heavily on the mind of Washington's U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke as he meets Thursday with Congolese president Laurent Kabila to discuss plans to deploy a U.N. force in the similarly troubled Congo later this year. "Holbrooke has been warning for some time of the danger of sending in forces that are too small to deal with the scale of the problem and therefore vulnerable to attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because...
...Katie: Right after it happened I didn’t know what to do. I was trying to weigh out the good and the bad. I considered the fact that I didn’t know that many people at school yet, and the advantage of being the first victim in the country to use my name in the case of a date rape. I didn’t know what bad things would happen—how could anyone disagree with me? I didn’t realize how the media could portray you badly. I was usually picketing...
...Taiwan's defensive needs. But plainly, if Beijing threatens to go to war simply on the basis of election rhetoric by Taiwanese politicians, then supplying the island with advanced military equipment would be taken by the mainland as a major provocation - and that's a prospect that would weigh heavily on the mind of any U.S. president. Still, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms lashed out at the decision as appeasement of Beijing, and the Taiwan arms issue may yet dovetail with the labor and human rights concerns of the House Democratic leadership to scupper the trade deal...
...humming, as kids cut the small talk and went straight to the point with openers like, "Any sexy guys feel like talkin' to a 15-year-old female from Arizona?" and deep questions like, "I don't mean to sound rude, but I was wondering, how much do you weigh...
...left, the unfinished wall is more than a foot shorter than the dominating image of the body at work. It seems to weigh less than the image of the woman stilled in her movement towards it. If the woman holds the key to the work, we may require more of her identity: does she represent a kind of social autobiography of the artist? The motion of the actor is already described: "Crossing the Rubicon" refers to Caesar's crossing of the small stream in Italy, beginning the war with Pompey. His words, "alea jacta est" or "the die is cast...