Otherwise, we'll keep chasing our own tail and pulling the short blanket from side to side.

Too many valid choices are ignored or skirted through the routine of short cuts.

As I also said earlier, we did indeed shop that around in Washington, and that formulation is not acceptable to the United States.

The five elders on the council have accepted the nomination of Abdoulaye Wade, who is seeking a third term, an action considered unconstitutional by many Senegalese voters.

We were freaks lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire, spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal, but at night, while the others slept, we kept walking the tightrope.

Indeed, it appears that we are caught in a vicious and hopeless circle the differences that have led us to accept urgent changes have, in turn, created more difference and greater resentment in the least developed countries, with more failed States and therefore greater insecurity in the global village.