Word: expertly
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Stanfield Professor of Internation- al Peace Robert O. Keohane, another expert inNye's field, is reportedly travelling to NorthCarolina to interview with Duke University, wherehis wife was recently appointed president...
...There is no question about the fact that war crimes have occurred in the former Yugoslavia," says Adam Roberts, professor of international relations at Oxford University and a leading expert on the subject. "The Geneva conventions have been obviously and massively violated." So when U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said in Geneva last month that "crimes against humanity have occurred," he was simply stating a fact...
...second Nuremberg may not be possible, but the U.N. is on a path that could lead to trials. The Security Council last October authorized a commission of legal experts from five countries to document war crimes in Yugoslavia. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he hoped the process thus begun would end by creating an appropriate court to judge the accused. The expert commission has already received 3,000 pages of testimony on war crimes in Bosnia from governments, aid organizations and individuals, mostly refugees. After analyzing the information, the experts will report to Boutros-Ghali...
...escape the comfort of his upbringing and put himself in wild places where privilege has no meaning. At 65 he's already spent a decade wrestling with Mister Watson, the fierce and accursed and untamable killer who was, by all accounts, "a good husband and a loving father, an expert and dedicated farmer, successful businessman and good neighbor...
...many other cities. The era of the megacity could bring the triumphant return of microbes that have toppled empires throughout history. Says Harvard public-health expert Jonathan Mann: "We only have a truce with infectious disease, and if a city's infrastructure gets overloaded, the balance can tip back to microbes at any time." The cholera epidemic that hit Latin American cities last year, hospitalizing more than 400,000 people and killing at least 4,000 in a few months, shows how quickly a disease can move when it finds a foothold in crowded slums...