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...Northern Ireland and revive their appetite for sharing power with Irish nationalists, as the province heads toward November elections. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, flew into Belfast for the occasion. But this careful choreography was replaced with chaos after the I.R.A., apparently to avoid the appearance of surrender, allowed the inspectors to release only the barest facts about the disposal and nothing at all about how many weapons were destroyed. David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and Northern Ireland's former First Minister, denounced the I.R.A. secrecy and refused to deliver...
HUPD is advising students, faculty and staff not to walk alone and to avoid dimly lit and isolated areas...
...President Bush can help it, he will undoubtedly try to avoid the oligarchs until after the Russian presidential election (to say nothing of his own). But banking on this political moment, the anti-Putin oligarchs might try to force Bush’s hand. They know that if the Bush administration backs Murmansk and recommends that extradition charges be dropped against Gusinsky, Putin will suffer the political blows...
...dangerous enterprise—then there would be a marked decrease in first-year alcohol abuse. A brief, rudimentary education program could also combat habitual over-consumption; once students know the danger signs, such as drinking heavily four or five days a week, they might be able to avoid the problem themselves or seek help for friends and roommates when they observe dangerous signs...
...Hawks such as Undersecretary of State for Non-Proliferation John Bolton warned just last week that signals of cooperation from Tehran should be seen simply as an attempt to "throw sand" in the eyes of the international community to avoid confrontation, but the involvement of Britain in brokering the latest agreement signals the fact that Washington's closest ally on Iraq has no interest in pursuing military action against Iran. Still, it may well be that the "regime-change" saber-rattling in Washington and the recent history of Iraq will certainly have helped the Europeans play "good cop" to Washington...