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...Given recent events, that's an understatement. On Feb. 3, one day after Iran launched its first domestically produced satellite, Britain's Foreign Office condemned the move, saying it raised "serious concerns about Iran's intentions." Two days later, the British Council, a body that promotes international cultural dialogue, suspended its operations in Tehran citing "intimidation" of its staff by Iranian officials. But the organizers of the Shah 'Abbas show were unperturbed. Curator Sheila Canby says the spirit of inquiry that museums share helps them transcend political tensions. "We've been told by Iranian and British officials that this...
...people concerned with justice for the worst crimes, it is time to capitalize on this unusual moment of convergence. Even those for whom justice is secondary have reason to pay attention. Nothing less than the authority of the United Nations Security Council is at stake. At this extraordinary moment, the ICC’s promise of international justice has captured the imagination of national actors with divergent agendas, interests, and loyalties...
...belied the fears of the act’s supporters; by operating on the principle of complementarity, the ICC will only investigate cases in which the state with jurisdiction over it is unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute. Yet on March 31, 2005, when the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Resolution 1593, the U.S. was left in the embarrassing position of having to abstain from a resolution calling for an investigation into a situation it had deemed a genocide. Since then, the U.S. government has pledged...
...share in mid-February, from $37.34 a share one year ago. Americans haven't lost reverence for Harley-Davidson, but a key problem is that people are simply less willing to spend money on luxury items. Overall motorbike sales fell 7.2% last year, according to the Motorcycle Industry Council, an Irvine, Calif., trade group. (See pictures of the world's most expensive motorcycles...
...ruling Monday, by the Conseil d'Etat, or State Council, was cheered by organizations representing French Jews and families of Jews who were deported during the war - a mere 3,000 of whom ultimately returned. The judgment involved the case of a 76 year-old woman seeking damages for the 1941 deportation of her father by Vichy forces to Auschwitz, where he was killed. In its decision, the Conseil d'Etat held the French state, as then represented by Vichy, "responsible for damages caused by actions which did not result from the occupiers' direct orders, but facilitated deportation from France...