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...Subsequent U.S. actions hardened this conclusion. They're laid out clearly in Asymmetrical Warfare Theory, a book published two years ago by three officers from the Nanjing Military Region which is tasked with attacking Taiwan, and bears a stamp reading "internal military distribution." The authors critique U.S. actions in Yugoslavia and Africa and draw disturbing lessons. For one thing, they write, the U.S. wouldn't have dared launch its long-distance strikes against Serbia if Belgrade had possessed "the ability to take the war into the enemy's territory"?as China can do with missiles that can hit U.S. bases...
...which he and his associates are accused of paying off judges in a case related to the state's sale of a food conglomerate - was delayed after Berlusconi's forces passed a law last October that requires judges to exclude all evidence from foreign countries that lacks the proper stamp on any of the documents. An outstanding fraud case was effectively made moot by a "false accounting'' law passed in April by the governing coalition that decriminalized all but the most serious accounting infractions. And there are the inevitable questions that on any of these issues, Berlusconi's direct...
Will that happen? In 1992 the big, global measures of the Rio summit seemed like the answer to what ails the world. In 2002 that illness is--in many respects--worse. But if Rio's goal was to stamp out the disease of environmental degradation, Johannesburg's appears to be subtler--and perhaps better: treating the patient a bit at a time, until the planet as a whole at last gets well...
...ignorance. Americans don't understand that for Europeans, whose memory of war crimes is deep, anything that codifies the rightful conduct of war is ipso facto desirable. Europeans seem unable to appreciate the import of congressional sentiment against the court. Congress (unlike most European parliaments) is not a rubber stamp; it has a constitutional role in international affairs, and it takes it seriously...
...moment, politicians are undertaking what could be the most sweeping structural reforms in the business world since the 1930s. The N.Y.S.E. has proposed stiff new rules for boards of directors, and the SEC has proposed changes in accounting and auditing procedures. The SEC has already imposed new rules to stamp out conflicts of interest among stock analysts...