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...nonviolence become an archaic irrelevance? Maybe. But it does have a good historical record of succeeding where violence fails, where violence merely begets further violence, in the same fatal way that dictators beget revolutions that beget more dictators. If the demonstrators are to succeed, they would do best to adopt the non-violent methods of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. But there is, as yet, no one leader or organization capable of disciplining the ragtag, centrifugal anti-globalist demonstrators to nonviolence; and there is no coherent agenda. It's hard to predict what will happen, except that institutions like...
...some emergency repair work this week as delegates from 180 countries gather in Bonn to work out problems that threaten to scuttle the deal altogether. With the U.S. definitely not on board, and Japan threatening to leave as well, there is tremendous pressure to get enough nations together to adopt some version of the treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If Japan withdraws support, the accord?s days may be numbered, and hope isn?t high among delegates that there will be an agreement this time around...
Casey said that he anticipated Summers would return to Washington to push issues important to Harvard such as increasing federal financial aid spending, modifying the tax code to benefit universities and protecting intellectual property rights. However, he said that he did not expect Summers to adopt a “bully-pulpit” framework...
...also suggested that other newspapers adopt the policy of the San Jose Mercury News, which allows subjects of stories to withdraw or revise a quote in certain circumstances. The rule does not apply to public figures, but to “naive, ordinary citizens who didn’t realize that what they said might get them fired, sued, divorced...
...Tuesday night, and millions of South Africans are tuning in to find out if the white social worker, Karen, will be able to adopt AIDS orphan Benni - "People who love me always end up dying," the child says. No, it's not Melrose Place or E.R. or any of the other imported dramatic series that fill the country's airwaves. It's a show about South Africans themselves. 'Soul City', the local soap opera that began as a good deed, is now an award-winning, multi-media business internationally recognized for its role in Third World development. It is also...