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Moreover, it is disingenuous to launch a war against the wishes of the U.N. and then preach the gospel of internationalism afterwards. Nations that did not support this military action should not have to pay to clean up after it, and idealists are sorely mistaken if they believe some form of U.N. involvement in Iraqi reconstruction will convey retroactive legitimacy for the American-led unauthorized preemptive action. Of course, there should be broad international consultation, especially involving Iraq’s regional neighbors, about how to proceed. America would be foolish to act unilaterally and ignore international opinion...
When a medical team from the World Health Organization (WHO) met with China's Vice Premier Wu Yi on April 9, members hoped they had found an ally in their efforts to get bureaucrats to come clean on the extent of the mainland's SARS epidemic. The Communist Party's most senior woman, Wu is a tough, gray-haired former trade negotiator, and she understood that the free exchange of information on the disease, believed to have originated in China, could help WHO investigators prevent a global pandemic. Wu said she had personally dispatched crews to two provinces to investigate...
...team’s excited that we’re still undefeated, but we still haven’t played as clean a match as we would like,” Lingman said. “You see more and more that the teams that win are able to stay together and support each other even though the sport is so individual. Building some sort of chemistry is the most important thing, and I think we’re starting...
...exhibition area was created out of former storage rooms and a section of the adjacent Augustinian monastery. The most lasting impression is made by the newly renovated imperial rooms of the Albertina Palace. It cost j5 million and took an army of 60 experts to clean and restore the 14 staterooms now on view to the public. Says Christian Benedik, the art historian responsible for the renovations: "We wanted the rooms to look just as they did in 1822, and that was expensive, and difficult, because there are only a few craftsmen and -women who are familiar with the different...
...dollars a year. Industry has ceased to exist and unemployment is optimistically estimated to hover at over 50%. Food is often in short supply with more than 60% of the population dependent on handouts from the oil-for-food program and around 40% of the children suffering from malnutrition. Clean drinking water is becoming rarer and electricity generation cannot even meet the reduced needs of an impoverished nation...