Word: ruling
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...wars. It is an awful paradox that compassion should come at so steep a price. This is why Annan doesn't insist on universal application of his doctrine. What he believes is that the world needs to create a climate in which brutality is the exception rather than the rule. It means using other weapons--sanctions, for instance--to slow killing. And it means giving nations trapped in cycles of violence the tools they need to join the world community. It means, in short, being compassionate...
...accessible way beyond what was assumed about a person in his position. His support for democratic and philanthropic causes was in my experience always without hesitation and reserve. His contribution to building a partnership between Big Business and the new democratic government in that first period of democratic rule can never be appreciated too much. We join with those millions of our compatriots who mourn with the family and hail a person who was monumentally instrumental in helping this country be the economic leader it is today. We mourn with his family, remember his heritage and look forward...
...decision making to individual sports federations, but that policy is not working when it comes to drugs. A third of the 28 federations have yet to agree to out-of-competition tests in advance of the Sydney Games. The I.O.C. should call an emergency session and make a new rule applying to all sports, then send out its newly empowered testers...
...better world, the rule would be: If you've got to kiss in public, kiss babies. Still, better your wife than an intern. But it's too late. The Gores belong to the first generation raised on television, which is also the first generation exposed routinely to pornography. They share the weird and unreliable assumption - almost universal now - that for something to be genuine, it must be shown. And if it is shown, it is credible. It is real. I grew up learning to make the opposite assumption: My deepest instinct tells me that if something is paraded in public...
...first rule for a journalist in this situation is to say or do whatever you have to to get out of jail. Then make a beeline for the airport and get out of the country...