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...CLAIM TO FAME SHOPS AT TARGET...
...times, he was less tactful than he should have been; he may have been overly ambitious in his reforms; and many of his ideas were controversial. But Larry Summers is not a symbol of racism or sexism. He is a progressive who values intellectual honesty in academia. To claim otherwise is to grossly distort his words and beliefs...
...discovery of life-saving treatment, millions the world over still bear the burden of infection alone and without hope. It forces us to consider how the global response to one of the greatest crises of our time has remained so tepid that each year the pandemic continues to claim five million new infections and three million more lives...
...fact, the only one of Iran's neighbors for whom it may be true, as the French PM suggests, that tensions have reached "an extreme point," is the United States - a neighbor by virtue of its presence in Iraq. Despite offering little evidence to back the claim, the Administration now routinely claims Iran is destabilizing Iraq and waging a proxy war on U.S. forces there. In fact, President Bush proclaims containing Iran as one of the strategic rationales for staying in Iraq. And the hawkish political faction inside and outside of the Administration that campaigned for war in Iraq...
...That agreement has been pilloried in the U.S., and IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei has come under attack, not least from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who told him to to butt out after he criticized the war talk from Western officials. But, having been vindicated in his prewar claim that Saddam had no nuclear weapons program, ElBaradei is unlikely to back off. "I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons," he said in response...