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Since Kimberley was created, the industry says, 99.8% of diamonds are conflict free. Activists say that the situation is better but that diamonds are the cause of continuing misery. Two weeks ago, when Kimberley Process members sat down to their annual plenary meeting in Botswana to discuss how the watchdog system was working, the pressure for tighter oversight had ratcheted up. Responding to a U.N. report that poor controls are allowing conflict diamonds from war-torn Ivory Coast to enter the legitimate trade through neighboring Ghana, where they are being certified as conflict free, the diamond industry agreed not only...
...most important mission of his papacy. Having thrust himself to the center of the global debate and earned the vilification of the Muslim street, he must weigh hard options. Does he seize his new platform, insisting that another great faith has potentially deadly flaws and daring it to discuss them, while exhorting Western audiences to be morally armed? Or does he back away from further confrontation in the hope of tamping down the rage his words have already provoked? Those who know him say he was clearly shocked and appalled by the violent reaction to the Germany speech...
...down." When her former House colleague Martin Frost was running to head the Democratic National Committee after the 2004 elections, she lobbied against him with a determination that all sides attributed to Frost's challenging her for Democratic leader two years before. Asked about those conflicts, Pelosi refused to discuss them specifically but said, "Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with...
Your Nov. 14 article (“Faculty to Discuss Gen Ed Report,” news) only quoted the conclusion of my remarks on the general education proposal. I wish to provide a fuller version of my thoughts: The distressing lack of emphasis on the humanities and on the study of the indispensable aesthetic component of human life and thought may result from the present bias of the proposal, but even more so from its unfortunate focus on life after Harvard. Just because relatively few Harvard students go on to graduate school and careers in academia does not mean...
...means that, should a student have the temerity to defend the United States on certain grounds, Professor Scott will always be prepared to shift the rationale for criticism. It does not appear to matter that the seminar’s original objective, as printed in its syllabus, was to discuss U.S. power under the framework of international law. It is deeply troubling that an academic like Professor Scott would both eschew objectivity and undercut independent thinking in order to indoctrinate students with anti-American sentiments. Even more unsettling is that she teaches in Australia, one of the United States?...