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...first century.” He criticized the “AIDS denialism” of the South African government and accused Clinton and Gore of being swayed by drug companies. A “practical morality” in dealing with the issue, he argued, was critical. Any agenda to address AIDS, he said, would have to protect society’s “most vulnerable and marginalized members” such as young African women and be based on sound science. Achmat encouraged Harvard student activists to contribute to AIDS treatment at a Friday morning breakfast with...
...Libby is indeed being honest, and the commander-in-chief was also the “leaker-in-chief,” then Bush chose a dishonorable path to push his agenda. The administration only released information to journalists that it viewed as sympathetic to the president’s goals (such as New York Times reporter Judith Miller), which exemplifies Bush’s desire to manipulate public opinion...
Identifying the problem is just the first step. The next moves are being made by towns like Shelbyville, where a loose coalition of community leaders and school administrators have, for the first time, placed dropout prevention at the top of the agenda. Now they are gamely trying to identify why kids are leaving and looking for ways to reverse the tide. At the request of a former principal, a local factory promised to stop tempting dropouts with jobs. Superintendent David Adams is scouting vacant storefronts for a place to put a new alternative high school. And Shelbyville's Republican state...
...website, Finkelstein says he agrees with Bin Laden’s assertion that Americans cannot be secure until the non-Western world is as well—not that the he agrees with Bin Laden’s overall agenda or terrorist tactics...
...because - as the nuclear standoff has shown - any external threat rallies even opponents of the mullahs behind their regime, and any attack on Iran would create chaos in the region. Thus, while Secretary Rice was telling British audiences last week that military action "is not what is on the agenda now" but that President Bush "never takes any option off the table," her host and British counterpart Jack Straw has repeatedly and strenuously made clear that military action is "inconceivable...