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...guarantee that the technology is not used for illicit purposes? Zarif builds on an approach that Iran floated last October. "Iran could agree that its nuclear facilities, including all of its enrichment plants, could be jointly owned by an international consortium. All countries with concerns, including the U.S., could participate in that consortium. Their people and other foreign nationals could come and go to work at the facilities, which would allow for the best type of monitoring...
...consortium proposal is the key to Zarif's plan, because it could provide the best way to prevent cheating. "Because many countries would own and operate the plants, there would be built-in safeguards against nationalization or cheating," he says. From Iran's perspective, this would be less offensive than just having inspectors. "It is an issue of respect," Zarif explains. "Of course you are monitoring as you do this, but you are doing it with respect as owners and operators...
Captains from many of Harvard’s major sports teams met with Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives and College administrators yesterday evening for a “Captains’ Consortium,” which addressed topics ranging from difficulties facing student athletes to athletic advising and school spirit...
...Meanwhile, the South Asia Initiative (SAI), a faculty consortium founded in 1999 to provide a forum for South Asian scholars across disciplines, does not have the power to appoint faculty or grant degrees. Though SAI has begun to offer grants for study in South Asia, it was only able to fund less than 50 percent of summer grant proposals last year; this despite former President Lawrence H. Summers’ statement that his favorite trip of 2006 was to India: “Every American should visit the country that may be our most important ally two decades from...
...goods and feed its ever-growing need for natural resources without the least concern for human rights considerations. China is selling arms to the military junta in Myanmar, cutting deals with Zimbabwe, and heavily investing in Angolan oil. Most shamefully, it bought 40 percent of the Sudanese oil consortium last year and has become the biggest champion of Sudan, the planet’s current most egregious violator of human rights. Will the emergence of China result in a world that will have lost its ability to even take collective action against genocide...