LONDON -- If good intentions could guarantee good results, the recently concluded Millennium Summit at the United Nations in New York would merit nothing but unreserved praise.
All the right notes were struck, all the right goals set and all the right aspirations articulated.
A "new international social compact" to uplift the world's poor and create "a virtuous circle of development" sounds full of promise, while Secretary General Kofi Annan's proposals for better organized U.N. peacekeeping deserve everyone's support, and appeared to get it at the New York gathering.