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...conference’s first speakers (and the only head of state to attend the conference) was Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has in the past called Israel a “rotting corpse” and advocated wiping the country off the map. Unsurprisingly, his speech at Durban II accused Israel of being “the most cruel and racist regime” in the world. But perhaps the most offensive aspect of the entire spectacle was that Ahmadinejad’s speech came on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, when the millions...
...nations around the world waited for word on the swine flu outbreak this week, Taiwan got some long-awaited news of its own. After over 10 years of trying, Taiwan received invitation on Wednesday to attend the United Nations World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer in the 62nd meeting of the World Health Organization's governance body in May. It will be the first time that Taiwan, an island of 23 million people, has been allowed to participate in a United Nations body since it lost its U.N. seat to China in 1971. Taiwan has been pushing...
...Money was thrown at market research too, especially in the long months before the launch. (Lipman was hired in the summer of 2005 for a magazine that didn't come out until May 2007.) "When I asked to attend a focus group, they suggested not New York - in the same building - but Chicago," says another former staffer. "Joanne stayed at the Four Seasons. And two people from the art department turned their San Francisco focus-group trip into a multiday minivacation at company expense...
Navarro, who attended Eleganza as a pre-frosh, said that the show’s commitment to diversity inspired him to attend Harvard. “Eleganza is meant to be a cultural celebration about Harvard coming together to enjoy our community and culture,” he said...
...with the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Italy, had already decided to boycott over concerns that Ahmadinejad would abuse it in precisely this manner. That political leaders and journalists are now focusing nonstop on the inflammatory remarks indicates that Western countries’ decision not to attend may have had precisely the opposite effect of what they intended, drawing even greater attention to what Ahmadinejad said in their absence...