In addition to seeing seven drivers win the first seven races, the 2012 season broke several records.

So you show them their data, you show them they are bad and they're like, Not possible. You know, they have this sort of gut feeling that, really, they are doing really, really good.

He said that Africans were making progress in human rights, enhancing good governance, building peace and security, establishing equity and dealing with corruption.

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But Europe s policymakers claim to be making progress toward a so called banking union, which means collective banking supervision, rather than a merger of banks themselves.

It is too early to suggest that politicians might make real progress toward implementing genuinely effective policies on climate change.

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It cannot be overemphasized that forward momentum depends on the Provisional Institutions, political leaders and people from all communities actually delivering real progress on the standards.

Military reprisals will swell their ranks still further, and, until political grievances are addressed, the spread of democracy will not change that equation, because the extremists will win at the ballot box.

Through NEPAD, African leaders have not only taken ownership and leadership of the continent's socio economic renewal agenda but they have also transformed the content of the development agenda and are making progress in changing the international context as well.

But Europe s policymakers claim to be making progress toward a so called banking union, which means collective banking supervision, rather than a merger of banks themselves. In September, the European Commission announced a plan to make the European Central Bank the supervisor of all 6,000 of Europe s banks.

It is too early to suggest that politicians might make real progress toward implementing genuinely effective policies on climate change. But, given the dearth of common sense in recent years, the mere fact that a growing chorus of reasonable voices can now be heard is nothing short of miraculous.