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...lives, the Bush team is busy meticulously figuring out details needed to finalize Saddam’s trial, to prepare for yet another round of chaotic and premature elections, and to push for the adoption—and now implementation—of a hastily drafted constitution. These activities divert much-needed energy and focus from the more pressing task of keeping Iraqis safe.While political achievements might be of the kind of legal tender that can enable the administration to buy the support of more Americans for the war effort, such currency is hardly worth anything right now for Iraqis...
...also unlikely Ovitz will take the suggestion made by James Glassman, in another Post column, that he divert his severance to charity. If he did, he would be breaking the first rule of major executives: get paid no matter what...
...priesthood? The church's witch hunt is an affront to me and many others who see it as a thinly veiled attempt to equate homosexuality with sexual abuse by priests. Homosexuality does not predispose a person to commit a crime against a child. The Catholic Church is trying to divert attention from fundamental institutional problems and from its inept handling and cover-up of sexual abuse by priests in the U.S. Reaffirming a ban on gays entering the priesthood would drive away some of the very few men willing to serve the church and live celibate lives. It is clear...
...Since colonization, these economies have been set up to extract resources from the continent, minimizing both the cost to foreign governments and corporations and the compensation for Africans from whose land comes the minerals, oil, diamonds, and other valuable products. The only real solution to African poverty is to divert the resources of the continent and the wealth they generate back to the people of the continent. This is where our voices are needed...
...counts. It assumes that if North Korea were allowed light-water power plants, the presence of international inspectors would preclude illicit bomb-making. But a study completed last year by my organization (the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, D.C.) detailed how a country such as North Korea could divert spent or fresh reactor fuel from a large light-water reactor to a small, hidden reprocessing or enrichment plant without inspectors finding out in time to block the material from being made into bombs. The U.S. State Department validated the report's detailed scenarios by asking that I censor...