Word: westly
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Iran should see that, great though its potential is, its future requires more, not less, integration in the world economy. An accommodation with the international community as represented in the International Atomic Energy Agency is essential for that. Europe, for its part, needs to rebut criticism that the West has been weak in the face of the clampdown in Iran. More strident or active support for the Iranian opposition would harm it, just as new U.S. sanctions now would do little more than allow Ahmadinejad to claim that the West is as hostile to Iran's people...
Helmut Kohl could relate. In the 1980s, Germans used to make fun of their Chancellor for his thick Rhineland accent and stumbling speeches. But when more-elegant and eloquent statesmen were dithering after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Kohl seized the moment. He propelled East and West Germany to unification within a year, while others thought that unification, if it happened at all, was a distant prospect. It was Kohl's decisiveness that made him a leader, not his honeyed tone...
...Padres may be the bottom dwellers of the NL West, but they've got a couple young guys waiting to bust...
...Sitting at the bottom of the NL West with a 37-55 record—an insurmountable 21 games out of first place—it’s definitely hard to be a Padres fan. But as a wizened student of baseball, I also appreciate investment. And I think the Padres have that...
...July 17 bombings, as well as the assassination of an Australian mining employee working in the remote province of West Papua earlier in the month, reminded the world that foreigners continue to be the intended victims of terrorism in Indonesia. Not only did the bombs detonate at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which are popular with foreign guests, but also the suicide attacker at the Marriott appears to have deliberately targeted a group of mostly Western businessmen and diplomats with his explosives. While his counterpart at the Ritz-Carlton focused on the busy restaurant where people were breakfasting...