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...Candidates, Two Styles Re "Does Temperament Matter?": Throughout his career, John McCain has shown himself willing to put others at risk to advance his career or his causes [Oct. 27]. Like President Bush, he is a person who shoots from the hip, invites conflict and sees compromise as a sign of weakness rather than a path to progress. His impulsiveness has been evident this fall in rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what...
Frankel’s paper responds to concerns that environmentally motivated import restrictions would necessarily conflict with World Trade Organization statues protecting free trade, which he characterized as already “pretty environmentally friendly...
...success of the HRC’s scholarly strategy still relies on an ability to circumvent conflict with friendly conversation. I experienced this approach first-hand the first time I met Motley, over two years ago in Annenberg Hall. At the time, he was angling for a freshman position on the Undergraduate Council. I represented a potential constituent. We sat eating cereal and discussing Harvard’s same-gender rooming policy, on which we held opposing views. A nearby classmate, overhearing our debate, suggested that the longer Motley persisted with the conversation, the more likely he was to lose...
...addressed, a far more daunting challenge will face all the diplomats who are now speaking earnestly of a solution at last in eastern Congo, whose people have suffered through two wars and numerous clashes since the mid-1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given sympathy - and, many suspect, military...
...Kouchner is wrong. Africa has seen such a massacre before - in the exact same place, over the last 10 years. An estimated 5 million people have died as a result of conflict in Congo's east, a place whose warring factions have stymied the world just as badly as have those in Darfur or Somalia. Fighting between the rebel forces, led by Gen. Laurent Nkunda, an ethnic Tutsi, and Congolese troops had raged for months. It became clear in June that a January peace deal between the government and the rebels was collapsing, but little was done. "I've been...