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...over, like a Good Samaritan," he says. Now that he's Foreign Minister, some French aid organizations worry that he may try to deploy French troops to bolster relief efforts. That, they argue, could strip humanitarian groups of their role as impartial actors in political conflicts. More bluntly, Rony Brauman, a former MSF president and one of Kouchner's strongest critics, accuses him of engaging in "media stunts." Kouchner as Foreign Minister is "not good," says Brauman. "He thinks it is our duty to kick out Third World dictators. We think [humanitarian organizations] should stay out of politics...
...record high number of female inductees is unrelated to uproar following recent comments made by University President Lawrence H. Summers about women’s intrinsic abilities in math and science, according to John I. Brauman, a professor of chemistry at Stanford who oversees the election process...
...election to the NAS depends on outstanding scientific contributions,” Brauman said. “The scientists are judged strictly on merit...
...number of women in the sciences has been increasing for years, according to Brauman, so it is natural that the number of women inducted to the NAS would correspondingly increase...
...debate augurs poorly for Europe's relations with Israel. Israelis blame Europe for being pusillanimous and pro-Palestinian; Europeans blame Israel for being harsh and inhuman. Yet their ties are inextricable. "Israel is a product of the Shoah, and the Shoah is a product of Europe," says Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins sans Frontières and a fierce Jewish critic of Israel. Chirac's initiative on anti-Semitism may help tear down one obstacle to better relations between Europe and Israel. But a new one is going up in the form of the security fence...