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...Despite opposition from the U.S., China and India, the International Criminal Court - the world's first permanent court for the prosecution of human-rights abuses - was formally inaugurated in the Hague. With a mandate to try individuals accused of large-scale crimes against civilians, its first task is to appoint a prosecutor - a politically sensitive decision, since it is the prosecutor who will decide which cases the court pursues. Still Divided CYPRUS Talks aimed at reunifying the divided island before the Greek section joins the E.U. next year broke down when Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash rejected a U.N. power...
Members of Diversity in Education: Action Now! (DEAN), a recently-formed activist group, called on Summers to appoint a dean who supports affirmative action and diversity...
...wonder: a recent national poll taken by the respected Rajabaht Institute registered a 90% approval rating for the drug war. The average Thai family, apparently, wants the scum off the streets, even if they depart in body bags. (The Prime Minister did say last week that he would appoint a panel to monitor the drug-suppression drive...
Lewis has also enforced a policy instituted by former University President Derek C. Bok to appoint masters on five year contracts...
...President's Council of Economic Advisers, R. Glenn Hubbard. Front and center in Koizumi's new war is the Bank of Japan (BOJ), where Governor Masaru Hayami ends his five-year term on March 19. In a string of a barely veiled critiques, Koizumi has said he intends to appoint by month's end an "aggressive deflation fighter" to replace the unpliant Hayami...