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Loui Itoh ’07, chair of the sex trafficking policy group and a Crimson editor, believes that the increase in the number of groups has been positive, especially because groups can choose a narrow agenda and stick with...
...resolution and could veto any resolution of which Khartoum might disapprove. We are not hopeful that discussions with China and Russia will lead to UN-led action in Sudan, although the U.S. should still encourage such discussions and should push for the inclusion of the issue on the agenda of the G8 meetings this July. (We are, however, heartened by yesterday’s Security Council resolution, which condemned four Sudanese nationals accused of committing war crimes in Sudan, and passed because China and Russia abstained from the vote.)More realistically, Europe and the U.S. should step in with direct...
...already wealthy. Rex H. Wyers Pace, Florida, U.S. It is certainly sad to see the developments in Russia since Gorbachev was President of the former Soviet Union. His concept of perestroika was sorely misunderstood by the population, which has since separated into many factions, each with its own agenda. As a Nobel laureate, Gorbachev will be remembered by many of us as a man who was ahead of his time. Henrik V. Blunck Dianalund, Denmark What's Next for Israel? time's story on Ehud Olmert's victory in the Israeli elections [April 10] said it showed that Israeli voters...
...known will have to be matched with a political flexibility rare among Iraqi leaders if he is to have any chance of improving on Jaafari, however: He lacks a majority in the legislature, and will need to find allies on an issue-by-issue basis to pursue his legislative agenda. Since consensus is no easy feat in in light of the sectarian tensions of all of the major blocs in the legislative assembly, Maliki may simply end up commanding a weaker central government...
...difference there. Opus Dei gives you a regime to keep in shape, tells you how to do it, and tells you how to help other people do it." But Thelen does not shy away when we ask him why Opus Dei is associated with conservative politics and a secretive agenda. He denies that Opus Dei has any interest in electoral politics per se, even if that is the most powerful pulpit to change the real world. "Opus Dei puts its emphasis on one-on- one relations," he says. "We do things in a quiet way, not a splashy...