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...implementation of the Kimberly Process is actually left up to the customs officials of each nation, and to private diamond cutters. Unscrupulous diamond cutters will easily be able to circumvent the certification system by refining the rough diamonds, for polished diamonds do no require certificates. Why? Because there are centuries??€™ worth of polished diamonds in circulation without certificates, so these cut conflict diamonds would blend right in without documentation. This all means that despite the fancy new certificate system, the ban still depends on the cooperation of private diamond dealers—the very people who have been...
Harvard’s reputation for excellence—built up president by president over the preceding centuries??€”has developed into almost mythic proportions...
...problem hasn’t changed much in the intervening seven centuries??€”or at least in the last 365 years—as more and more land has found its way into John Harvard’s cold, clammy fingers. The secret purchase of 58 acres across the river caused widespread unease among Allston residents; they also evoke Mortmain’s prohibition on acquiring lands “by art or wile...
...defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a warlike spirit and a knowledge that Allah is on his side. It is that example, that spirit of war, that flung the early Islamic empires outward to the corners of the earth, that spirit that inspired militant Muslims down through the centuries??€”a spirit that divides the world into the House of Islam and the House of Unbelief, and declares irrevocable enmity between them...
...seeking to move its facilities into the next century, Carolina needs to remember its ties to its city. Carolina cannot forget what has made it special in the past centuries??€”something for which no number of buildings will ever substitute...