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...same technology would allow Iran to build a nuclear weapon - and the Western powers don't trust Iran's intent. Breaking the seals at Natanz is either an exercise in brinkmanship designed to improve Iran's bargaining position, or else it reflects a decision to break out of the framework it had been negotiating with the European Union and accelerate its pursuit of the technological capability to build a nuclear weapon. Either way, the U.S. and its European partners are treating the move as crossing a red line, forcing them to respond. The three European countries with which Iran...
...great loss. While we're all looking for the heroes of the '60s, a strong foundation has been laid. It spawned the next phase in taking our nation where it needs to get. Now the task is to honor them in our deeds. His words are still the framework. Where is the voice today? We're it. We've got to make the leaders hear it. He did his part. Now we need to do ours...
...from the intended democracy, most frequently into dictatorship and kleptocracy. In order to practice democracy successfully, a critical mass of free men and women need to truly grasp its implications and make informed policy choices. In South Africa, it is the lack of political leadership, amid a solid institutional framework, that inhibits the country's decisive response to the hiv/aids pandemic, structural unemployment and abject poverty. What this country, and indeed the continent, needs is probably a well-balanced combination of the two. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi M.P. President of the Inkatha Freedom Party Ulundi, South Africa Gender Sensitivity...
...many cathedrals got built in the Middle Ages is that it is easier to raise a great edifice when there is a benevolent potentate in charge--with a long view and obscene sums of money. Today we have Bill Gates, hands stuffed in his pockets, squinting up at the framework of his unfinished cathedral...
...traditional quest for profit. Rodgers considers that bunk. Not that he opposes conscientious corporate conduct or occasional acts of charity. He's quick to point out that he and his company do quite a bit of both. "What I do criticize," he grumbles, "is the preachy and somewhat arrogant framework of philosophy that says, In order to be a good company, thou shalt do the following...