Word: bernard
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There is no quick military solution. With 17,000 troops on the ground, the U.N. force may be the largest the world organization is currently fielding but those peacekeepers have not been able to fulfill even their limited mandate of protecting civilians. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, has called for the European Union to send reinforcements. This might serve as good out-of-theater training exercise for the European troops but an extra 2,000 boots on the ground - even if the 27-member body could agree on the mission - would do little to address the root causes...
...here he felt like he was part of the Hillel family, as opposed to the president of the most esteemed university in the world.” The floor at yesterday’s event was meant to be opened to all questions in what Hillel Director Bernard Steinberg termed “a completely open forum.” But students wasted no time narrowing the subject of their inquiries to the impending presidential election and the recent economic crisis, with one Hillel undergraduate questioning Summers on what the effects of an economic recession would be on the American...
...Hutus during the Rwanda genocide. Both Hutu and Tutsi groups are remnants of refugee militias that fled to Congo during and after the genocidal conflicts in Rwanda. "This is a massacre such as Africa has probably never seen, which is taking place virtually before our eyes," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told Europe 1 radio before departing Paris for DRC on Friday...
...name of (Hermann) Goering said that the Jews were responsible for all the misery the Germans was having. One lie. And that lie caught on. And before it was all over, 6 million of them died." - Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, a former county commissioner, comparing his son's persecution in the local media to Nazi propaganda. He later apologized. (The Detroit News...
...world is missing now. Plainly, there are material aspects of modern American life that still inspire admiration from overseas, and features of American innovation that nobody else can match. But I spend about half my time outside the U.S., and I have to say that in many ways, like Bernard Kouchner, I think that the magic is gone. You want modern transportation systems? Try France or Japan. New airports? Half the cities of Asia. The old assumption that American culture would sweep the planet no longer holds good. In Africa and Asia, they don't cluster round TVs to watch...