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...state treatment; neither would it hurt China to stop caring about face so much. Whether the next summit is rescheduled as a state dinner at the White House or a tête-à-tête at the Crawford ranch, leaders on both sides must commit themselves to an honest conversation about their diplomatic futures. The future stability of the world depends...
...Drug Services. Travia’s new ideas and perspective may go a long way in addressing the problem of alcohol abuse. However, he, and Harvard’s alcohol policies as a whole, will only be successful so far as he is allowed to promote an open and honest dialogue about alcohol use on campus...
Travia’s new ideas seem focused on dealing with these problems in a meaningful way. While there are some questions as to the efficacy of social-norm campaigns, the idea seems to strike at the root of the most significant problem: the lack of an open and honest dialogue. Knowing that 78 percent of college students consume zero to five drinks during a night of partying may not have exactly the effects Travia predicts, but at least it admits that drinking does happen...
Hurricane Katrina itself, of course, was a product of natural violence, not human violence, and we need to be careful with any comparisons with September 11 lest they trivialize the suffering of either one. But we also need to be honest with ourselves: if 9/11 was a wake-up call we all felt compelled to answer, 8/30 was a living nightmare which much of this nation slept through...
...from ballot stuffing to vote buying to intimidation inside polling stations - cast a pall over Mubarak?s majority. Repeated cries of foul play raised questions about whether the crucial elections for Egypt?s 454-seat parliament, due to be held in the next two months, would be an honest contest. After most of its monitors were barred from observing Wednesday?s post-election vote count, Egypt?s Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (ICEM) declared: ?No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor and scrutinize the process by which their vote...