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...Bush position on Kyoto offers yet another reason for Europeans to question whether -after eight years of Clinton talking of multilateralism without necessarily moving it forward -Bush's America is abandoning even the pretext. "In Europe, we're seeing an attitude shift from complacency to some alarm," says Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The alarmist catalog would begin with National Missile Defense, move to the worsening relationship with Russia, and take in the harder line on North Korea and Iraq, and finally the tepid support for the E.U.'s ambitions in foreign and security policy...
...every Chinese outrage?the spy scandals, the weapons sales, the human rights abuses?so long as nothing got in the way of our growing trade. Bush clearly sided with those who favored a tougher line when he took to calling China a "strategic competitor," not a partner. That shift pleased a whole range of constituencies, evangelical Christians worried about religious persecution, union protectionists, unthawed cold warriors, human rights activists. But the business lobby had other agendas, and they were all going to be watching closely...
...Young people in all four countries think there is now a fairly even balance of power between national governments and the European Union, but they expect that balance to shift to the E.U. in years to come...
...British are the least enthusiastic about political union and would like to see a shift in power back to the British government
Harvard's first line would break the tie on its first shift following the game-tying goal, when Ingram crashed the net and put back a loose rebound off a Shewchuk shot to give Harvard a 2-1 lead going into the first intermission...