Then, the star reporter of 'Radio Millenium' barged into the room. Beads of sweat on his forehead, he shouted into his mobile phone: "Hey, listen, it's a bombshell. Hit the record button now! OK? Here it goes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…After exhausting informal negotiations on the eve of the final deadline of July 17 , the Moonlight Islands agreed to change at least one controversial comma on Article 34, Section W of 'Petty Theft on Minorities by Invading Soldiers' - in exchange for an additional colon to be added in Article 258, C bis, Addendum 94-F of the Statute, dealing with 'Forced Recruitment of Dogs for Secret Operations'. This, diplomatic sources here told Radio Millenium, was the deal that finally cleared the way for a historical agreement on the International Criminal Court. By tomorrow this time, tyrants, oppressors, human rights violators should start quivering in their boots, as their days are counted. End of report. You got it?"

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- What? What do you mean you don't understand?

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- Hey, this is THE bombshell, man. That was the big problem here. All they have to do now is to iron out aggression, jurisdiction, the Security Council and the prosecutor tonight , but they are all celebrating already.

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- What? Yes, yes. I see. Oh yeah, some NGOs too. Well, some are complaining, but it's the same old stuff, old hippies, pinkies, stuff like that. No, no. Actually I also joined in the toasts. It's been hard, but we are getting there.

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- Why me? Man, you won't believe it, but we are very influential here. It's not me! The lawyers say that! They say you write a story on a movie on World War II atrocities, and thwack! Japan votes against reparations in the Statute. You interview a law professor and thwack! the Arab countries start pounding on Death Penalty. It's easy: you write a story, they change their vote. You say there's been an agreement on forced pregnancy and thwack! somebody blocks it at the next day's negotiations. It's amazing.

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- Oh no, you don't understand. There's a group of very smart people here. No, no, diplomats don't understand…What? The US lawyers? Who are they? Ha, they may believe that, but they are wrong. Read my lips, Gianluca: they are signing almost anything. I feel a little guilty, you know? If we had only stopped airing some pieces, they say, the Court could now be much stronger. How could I know that nuclear weapons would have been included in the Statute, had I not broadcast that piece on landmines in the Moonlight Islands? How?

Feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders, the reporter then walked into the night. My friend, Sjaamvd Lonalon, laid back and sipped his scotch. "I'm getting ready for the ceremony tomorrow at City Hall, " he confided to me. "There are the moments in which History, with a capital H, is written: this is one of them, no doubt." Willie Svilokos