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...only major country that indulges in diplomatic ostracism (although most Arab states don't recognize Israel). This policy was invented, appropriately enough, by the arch-idealist Woodrow Wilson, who said that diplomatic recognition should depend on the "existence of a just government ... resting upon the consent of the governed." Wilson refused to recognize the Soviet Union in 1917. That ban was lifted in 1933, but Wilson's policy was resurrected in 1949 when the communists conquered China. America's nonrecognition of China, which lasted nearly 30 years, was an unmitigated disaster. "If we had not ostracized the Chinese, we might...
...prepare for a role in longer-term reconstruction. Assuming the U.N. is indeed asked to help with that task--which is the private assumption of top officials at U.N. headquarters in New York City--there is the question of who will pay for it. That in turn may depend on how the war was waged. "If the U.S. does it with only a coalition of the willing," says the British official, "the other democracies will be reluctant to cough up later...
...more fearful of the UN becoming irrelevant if it simply rubber-stamps a U.S. policy of which most remain unconvinced. But the question of whether or not the Bush administration gets the nod from the UN Security Council to go to war in Iraq may, right now, depend less on the evidence than on the outcome of the political debate that underlies the dispute over what the inspectors have found and what they might have missed...
...students who wish to take classes with high-profile pundits and former top policy makers will depend on the registrar...
Like all the House system’s academic tutors, the House arts tutors are designated mentors—usually themselves part-time artists—who offer guidance and support to student artists. While their individual responsibilities depend on the physical resources available in their House, an arts tutor’s daily routine includes procuring student exhibition and studio spaces, critiquing student work and curating student shows...