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TIME.com: A U.S. official has warned that unless Moscow agrees to revise the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty by November, Washington will withdraw from the treaty in order to forge ahead with building a missile defense system. But Senate Democrats have vowed to keep the U.S. from walking away from the treaty - will the Bush administration be able to carry out its threat...
...Mark Thompson: Even though treaties have to be ratified by a two-thirds majority in the Senate, the ability to withdraw from a treaty is unilaterally vested in the executive branch. That means that while the Democrats can make a lot of noise, there's not a lot they can do to actually stop the President withdrawing from the treaty. If (Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman) Senator Joe Biden and others choose to make trouble, they may be able to slow things down, but the administration ultimately has a free hand here...
...planned protests ultimately spooked the Grammy organizers into baling out. The decision, which cost Miami's tourist industry some $35 million in lost revenues, was the worst possible outcome for the CANF. Not only had the imbroglio forced a damaging political split in the organization, the ultimate decision to withdraw the event had communicated exactly the type of message Mas Santos had been at pains to avoid...
...Addu, Durrani explains in My Feudal Lord, "the Khars were the law." Fakhra's family filed a complaint with the Karachi police after the acid attack, but no arrest was ever made. When Durrani heard in July that Bilal Khar was trying to bribe Fakhra's family to withdraw the complaint, she confronted them. "Do not fear him," she warned the family. "Fear me!" (The complaint remains in force.) Durrani wants justice. "I'm looking for accountability," she says. "Fakhra is a symbol of the disorder of my country and any other Muslim country where women don't have...
...milquetoast mandate, may seem imprudent given the continuing potential for an escalation of violence - the alliance has sworn, perhaps for the benefit of edgy domestic constituencies, to keep its men far away from any situation that even looks like turning nasty. But, like NATO's promise to simply withdraw if fighting resumes, it's hard to take that at face value. For one thing, NATO troops have actually been in Macedonia all along - Skopje houses the major logistics base for the entire Kosovo peacekeeping operation, and they're not about to withdraw. The reason for the early deployment...