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Where, though, are the sympathy pieces for the Iraqi children who died because of the systematic defrauding of tens of billions of dollars? Where are the hit pieces on the corrupt UN bureaucrats who cut deals with a mass-murderer to line their own pockets? Why has Kofi Annan, the person ultimately responsible for the UN’s conduct, not had his feet held to the fire as any other public figure would? What’s more, why have the people who blew the lid on this scandal not been honored? The women who blew open scandals...
...badly does the United Nations need reform? A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by Kofi Annan counted 101 ways in a much anticipated report released last week. Headed by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the 16-member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have...
...open the doors to new powers. The Council, in the eyes of its critics, has become too doddering, risk averse and compromised by historic rivalries to cope with today's threats. Its failure to reach consensus in the months before the invasion of Iraq is largely what inspired Annan to initiate this latest attempt at reform...
JOHN DANFORTH, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., in the Bush Administration's first show of support for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan since calls for his resignation last week...
...most UN apparatchiks as heartless bureaucrats. Current UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—then head of the organization’s peacekeeping department—squashed an operation that would have seized Hutu extremists’ weapons caches. (Although that didn’t stop Harvard from awarding Annan an honorary degree earlier this year...