We had to bring, in this case, the Arab League in.

Wooing China s Princelings

They've enlisted all the scum that hangs around both sides of the frontier, and they pay in dollars.

Acting on behalf of their agents for a sum of money, locals befriend the children and lure them with false promises.

Now, tuck those under.

You see, we couldn't come to terms.

My chin was about an inch from the ground.

That's the way. Just look this way. Now, when you're ready.

Easy now

Put the right foot in tight. Lock it with your left foot.

The continents move apart. They come back together.

All right, now face me, heels together.

Let's keep those heels together, shall we, son?

It's the best thing that could have happened to us, you know, 'cause if either government starts an inquiry, we'll need every man we can get.

Two. Leamas collects cash from innocent bank.

I got my friends involved and I grew companies and then I got 11 companies and I built the foundation.

And they were swollen so much, I couldn't even close them.

Couldn't you kneel down next to me and clasp your hands?

According to the commission, there is evidence to suggest that the procurement staff benefited from the efforts of suppliers and vendors to lure UNAVEM .

So it's the demand that brings them to the table.

So people would come to us and ask us, Hey, what are you up to?

Why don't you have it cut or sweep it back behind your ears?

Powerful criminal groups have thus become involved in the trade, making use of violence, corruption and close links to state agencies.

We were too busy laughing.

But when you get them close enough, something called the strong force starts to act and pulls them together.

Nearly all ICT sectors are converging on digital technology.

Regrettably, the reduction in such assistance had coincided with the ending of the cold war, for it appeared to indicate that the assistance had been partly a response to the rivalry between East and West and their interest in attracting the developing countries support, instead of being a sign of noble feelings of solidarity and brotherhood.

Information technology companies in particular can move freely between suitors offering inducements to attract information technology fabrication factories and software houses.

The striker is undoubtedly talented but with, as Pulis mentioned more than once, people dragging him one way and pulling him the other it has long been evident the relationship is unworkable.

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

Such a step might be taken in particular because of an urgent need to gather assets, including by way of obtaining provisional measures from foreign courts.

One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.

Where law and order were disrupted or non existent, organized crime syndicates approached illiterate and poor Afghan farmers, provided them with cash payments and credits, and persuaded them to cultivate opium poppy and cannabis for the production of hashish.

All major players in Russia s energy centric economy quickly fell into line politically, enabling Putin to use the country s oil and gas exports as a geopolitical cudgel. EU countries that he could not intimidate militarily, owing to NATO, were wooed with discounts or punished with price hikes.

A key lesson of 9 11 is that hard military power is essential in countering terrorism by the likes of Bin Laden, but that the soft power of ideas and legitimacy is essential for winning the hearts and minds of the mainstream Muslim populations from whom Al Qaeda would like to recruit. A smart power strategy does not ignore the tools of soft power.

It will actually happen by the powerful coming together and making treaty based systems, treaty based agreements, to govern that global space.

I was once driving down a main road in... onon the Continent... and I saw two great trucks... move out and converge on a... station wagon driving down the middle of the road.

Conditions for the granting of loans by the social security funds were also harmonized, and certain requirements of the retirement pensions scheme in the non agricultural private sector were brought into line with the public sector retirement pensions scheme.

This is certainly true in Latin America, where a wave of leftist populism has swept many countries. Several Europe countries, too, have revealed a less dramatic left right split, with Spain and Italy though not Poland and the Czech Republic moving somewhat to the left.

The Group proposes that the working group should meet at a time close to other meetings such as the second meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention and the PCB Consultation Meeting in May 2006.

In any case, the eurozone exists and, at this point, it would be exceedingly difficult to dismantle it fully. Given this, the goal today should be to move toward an optimal currency area.

It would also be desirable to reduce the US corporate tax rate gradually, bringing it closer to the 25 OECD average. That, too, would encourage more repatriation of overseas earnings.

Sarkozy has a golden opportunity to put his mark on the global financial system. Surely a French president, eager for global success with a domestic election looming, will not pass up his chance?

With OMTs, the ECB has converged toward the Fed in its ability to backstop each of its individual parts. Whether that hastens or hinders political progress toward fiscal and banking federalism is the next big question.

In response to the call for further United Nations consolidation, UNCDF will move much closer to UNDP financially, in accordance with the programme, budgetary and legal arrangements outlined below.