Many scientists, policy makers and the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report have agreed that disadvantaged nations, especially in the global south need more attention to the negative impacts of climate change.

"We must now evaluate ourselves on a tougher grading curve, one that includes that other major industrial nations," Mr. Bush said.

The Secretary General, in a letter to the summit leaders, proposed that nations in arrears on payments issue bonds to the United Nations.

"Italians root for their teams in ways that other nations can't match," said Paolo Massarini, secretary general of the Costa Smeralda yacht club, under whose flag Azzurra raced.

In 2004, James Surowiecki published The Wisdom of Crowds, in which he argued that small groups exhibit more intelligence than isolated individuals and that collective intelligence shapes business, economies, societies and nations.

Though not deeply versed in history, he had an idea, too, that nations who went in for 'circuses' were decadent.

Immediately after his election as Prime Minister, Kirk withdrew all New Zealand troops from Vietnam, ending that nations 8 year involvement in the Vietnam War.

Its understandable that "minor" nations might look for outside expertise but for England to do it is just embarrassing.

At Charlotte Street the staff were rubbing their hands together to keep them warm and wearing that martyred expression that other nations keep for sieges.

Contrary to Hegel's belief that states, nations, and individuals are all the time the unconscious tools of the world spirit at work within them, Marx insists that: