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...Undoubtedly and unfortunately, the potential for human rights improvement as a consequence of the Olympic spotlight has not been realized. The United States, European Union, and other national sports officials have unequivocally denied the possibility of a 2008 boycott, however. They and others rightly point out that the greatest burden of Olympic boycotts fall upon the shoulders not of the host country, but of guiltless athletes. For example, the American athletes who were barred from competing in the 1980 Moscow Games as a result of the U.S. boycott were asked, in then-Vice President Walter Mondale’s words...
...years ago," says a NATO official. "Then the whole thing appeared to hang by a thread." In the Latvian capital, tensions ran high over the inequitable commitments of NATO members to military operations in Afghanistan - what the countries with sizable troop deployments in dangerous areas refer to as "burden sharing." Those tensions remain, but a commitment by France to send up to 1,000 troops to eastern Afghanistan, made before this summit and confirmed on Thursday, has alleviated immediate concerns over a fracture in the Alliance. Canada has threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous zone around Kandahar...
...called trust fund to encourage countries that are not contributing troops to instead donate money and equipment to NATO operations. On Thursday, Prime Minister Brown revealed that 18 new helicopters and 8 nations had declared themselves ready to contribute to the fund. "This will become known as the burden-sharing summit," said Brown. That, at least, should be a name delegates can agree...
...form of loans, the initiative represents an admirable step toward ensuring that cost need not dissuade talented students from pursuing careers in medicine, regardless of those students’ means or background. The decision to expand aid was largely motivated by hopes that reducing indebtedness might lessen the burden on recent graduates to select “more lucrative specialties”—such as plastic surgery—after graduation. The medical school sees higher debts as the impetus behind a trend that has seen a decrease in the proportion of the school’s graduates...
...questions with no answers, and an exploration of the nature of memory. These characteristics make Pinter’s work wonderfully frustrating and absorbing, but at the same time create difficulties for the director, who must clearly convey the central ideas despite an often indiscernible reality.In this case, that burden falls upon not one, but three directors. The dual roles taken on by Pastel, Pecci, and Renaud, who direct and perform the play, add to the production’s intimacy. It is clear that the three are comfortable with one another, which adds a new level of complexity...