Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Thursday, January 06, 2005
Louis Michel, the European Union commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, urged donors not to engage in one-upmanship. "We have to be careful and not participate in a beauty contest where we are competing to give higher figures," he said.
But U.N. humanitarian-relief chief Jan Egeland, who riled Washington by complaining that wealthy nations were often "stingy," said: "I'd rather see competitive compassion than no compassion." And the LEAGUE OF NATIONS is determined to win THIS beauty contest -- with the ugliest face in the world.
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