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...challenge. I will be under the microscope all the time--whatever I do and say, how well I am able to move the Liberian development agenda, how I am able to promote peace and reconciliation. I'll have a lot of detractors who want to see me fail, not only because of my long years of political activism in Liberia but because they aren't really convinced that women can be leaders...
...light of 9/11, there is a tendency to see the French riots as a particular manifestation of the “Muslim problem.” But to do so would fail to appreciate the economic and social problems that all Western, developed countries face today. The African and Arab immigrants in France are its largest immigrant community, on which France today crucially depends to supply low-skilled labor at the time when its population growth continues to dwindle and its population continues...
Democrats are wary because the majority of Americans are not dogmatic on the issue. While most want abortion to remain legal, they also support restraints on its use, and politicians who fail to strike a credible balance pay a price (think John Kerry). You could already see the Senate Democrats' cautious approach by observing their behavior last week. In a series of speeches Wednesday, Reid and Senators Ted Kennedy and Charles Schumer spoke on Alito and the memo, but danced around abortion. On Thursday, the Senate's top five Democrats held a 40-min. strategy session in the anteroom...
...know, we’re probably too hard on the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC). Between boat cruises that run aground, rain-soaked after-parties that lack star acts, and concerts that don’t, but that fail anyway, it really is easy to criticize the UC. But that a group of college students can even contrive to undertake the kind of massive projects that the UC regularly does is a pretty remarkable feat.Even this knowledge, however, was insufficient to keep me calm on a sunny Saturday afternoon in New Haven, when the UC’s plans...
...efforts to preserve rice farming in Japan and South Korea may ultimately fail, not because of foreign competition, but because of long-term demographic changes. Over the past 30 years, millions of Korean farmers have traded their hoes and their backbreaking lifestyle for comfy, higher-paid jobs in the cities. The importance of rice in the Japanese or Korean diet is also on the wane as youngsters eat more Western-style foods. The amount of rice consumed by the average Korean has fallen 24% over the past 10 years alone, according to Korean government figures. "For the younger population, cooking...