Two years ago, however, he negotiated a pact to turn over 21 classical artifacts in the Met's collection to Italy.
In another, five young men and women who made a pact over the Internet and had failed in two previous suicide attempts drove to a seaside motel to discuss more effective methods.
The service gets you to create a "Pact" over how many times you'll make it to the gym over the course of a given week, and how much money you'll be willing to fork over if you don't meet that goal.
Leading the way were the French who, having failed Israel in a pact over the Suez Canal after being pressured by the US administration of President Eisenhower, instead decided to sell the young Jewish state crucial components for developing a bomb, including a nuclear reactor and a reprocessing plant capable of separating plutonium from spent reactor fuel.
But the contentious marathon discussions convened by the United Nations left so many issues undecided or watered down that many participants cautioned that time might run out to craft a pact over the next year that would deliver the emissions cuts needed to avert the worst damage scientists expect from climate change.
But when talks over a labor pact at the library broke down in April, the 14 member unions decided to pressure Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who is also the chief fund-raiser for the library foundation.
In 1990, British heavy metal band Judas Priest was sued over a suicide pact made by two young men in Nevada.
Word of a pact emerged over the weekend.
Clarín was left exposed to such scrutiny after its dealings during the dictatorship resurfaced in the congressional debates over the media law, including a pact in which it and two other newspaper publishers gained stakes in Argentina's only newsprint manufacturer.
Struggling between his thirst for pure knowledge and his desire for earthly pleasures, he finally chooses youth over embittered old age, signs a pact with the devil and embarks on the epic drama that is the cornerstone of German literature -- a text, some say, that is a key to understanding the German soul.
