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...over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead, she wants to increase organic farming...
Admittedly, the brunt of student safety cannot fall entirely on the University's shoulders. Students, for their part, must demonstrate more respect for both drivers and their fellow riders. They too must make an active effort to obey safety regulations and accept the fact that sometimes high demand means that stragglers have to walk...
...Indians are sick of corruption in government, but they've also learned to accept it as a fact of life. But what still gets people very angry is when guns and graft come together. That's viewed as venality that compromises national security. The late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi suffered a humiliating electoral defeat in 1989 after he was accused of accepting kickbacks from a howitzer deal with Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors. The Bofors scandal still haunts the Congress Party...
...local people. So the Macedonians will either have to use overwhelming force to restore control over the town, which would risk serious casualties on both sides in heavy street fighting - and the West is urging them to show restraint - or else they'll simply have to accept the situation that they've lost a piece of territory and concentrate on preventing similar things from happening elsewhere in Western Macedonia where there is a large Albanian population...
...unlikely that the Macedonian government would be able to meet rebel demands, which are essentially for a partition of the country. Because the Macedonian Slav part would not be politically or economically viable, and it would be suicide for any government in Skopje to accept such a deal. So the situation is very dangerous. The disintegration of Macedonia, with tragic human consequences, is a very real possibility now, particularly if the international community fails to intervene...