With the country's most egregious suspected war criminal at liberty, the European Union had a plausible reason to prevaricate about admitting it.Now that Mr Mladic is heading for a well-deserved trial in The Hague, the EU must stop making excuses.
That the typhoon Phanfone was heading for Suzuka was well known in advance, indeed, until Sebastian Vettel announced he was leaving Red Bull, its potential effect on the race had largely been the topic of discussion in the paddock.
Like independent department stores, local burger joints and dozens of other entrepreneurial businesses, the independent ethnic restaurant may soon find itself, if not headed for extinction, well on the way to marginalization.
This was so not in my plan, though it began to be evident way back in November, that there might be no turning back, that Kenny's body was headed for the "Well of Souls" as he coined it.
He briefly ponders how to get the manuscript to his office, before yawning and heading for bed, declaring: "Oh well, we'll think about that tomorrow".
However, the immediate path of prices is uncertain: Hurricane Rita, an even bigger storm that was heading for Texas this week, may well do further damage to America's Gulf coast refining capacity.
They, the ones that I'm very close to in work, can pick up on when I'm perhaps even heading for a low, before, well, not before I do, but at the same time that I can see it, they will point it out to me".
