The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, to which it is now answerable, is, however, no respecter of history.

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Mad-cow disease is clearly no respecter of national boundaries: cattle and cattle-feed are traded (and cows sometimes actually walk) across borders in the Union.

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It could become an innovator and a respecter of intellectual property.

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But for once 18 opposition parties had the sense to unite behind Mr Kostunica, who, like Mr Milosevic, is a Serb nationalist, but unlike the president a man of words, not bullets, and a respecter of law.

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And more personally perhaps, it will be a moment for us all, journalists, the people of New Orleans and observers alike, to mark the courage shown by the city's citizens, and to reflect that acts of nature are no respecter of economics or politics.

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