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...United Nations cannot: take sides, take casualties, deploy overwhelming force and fire pre-emptively.” In Sudan, they would come in, protect the civilians from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese army, and remain until the international community asked them to leave. In the meanwhile they would establish a peace, which could actually be kept by peace-keepers. Call it outsourcing...
...think this impossible, take a look at Sierra Leone in 1995. With rebels 20 miles away from the capital, Freetown, and with the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity unable to help, the Government of Sierra Leone hired Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary army, to establish peace in return for $15 million and access to some diamond mines. With 200 soldiers and a helicopter gunship, Executive Outcomes managed to quell the rebels and restore order. Three hundred thousand refugees returned home, and within a year, Sierra Leone had its first presidential election in 28 years. The soldiers...
...Sean R. Fredricks ’07 and directed by Akiva Fox, A.R.T. Institute ’05, is neither a readaptation nor a strict retelling of the original script, but a synthesis of the old and new. “I believe that your first priority is to establish communication between a text and an audience,” Fox wrote in an email, adding, “Actually, I tend to believe that ‘period’ Shakespeare alienates an audience from the essential part of the play...
...group’s most ambitious goals is to establish an alumni-sponsored endowment, with eventual hopes of funding a South Asian visiting professor chair, said Kadakia...
This leads to a fundamental problem for oil companies: the world thirsts for oil and there is not enough in other countries to sustain worldwide demand. So, oil companies have no choice but to deal with these regimes. It would be hard to establish a code of ethical investment for all oil companies. After all, if some regime is too sordid or controversial for a publicly listed U.S. oil company, there are plenty of other national oil companies in countries that do not care much for human rights and are willing to make a quick buck without competition. Boycotts...