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...1996–2003. Through smuggling and graft, Saddam’s regime stole more than $10 billion from the program, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. One veteran U.N. reporter has predicted that “it could be the biggest financial crime in the history of humankind.” The scandal implicates, among others, U.N. Oil-for-Food executive director Benon Sevan, French and Russian oil contractors, and possibly even Kojo Annan, Kofi’s son. When all is said and done, the Oil-for-Food disgrace might be where...
...what he regarded as its assumption that "the central purpose of Jesus' existence [was] to offer himself as a sacrificial ransom to a God made angry by our sin." The pastor disagreed. "The mission and purpose of Jesus' life and ministry," he preached, "was, first, to model for humankind the fullness of mercy and forgiveness that God offers to us sinners and, second, to model for us the perfection of love that God is and that those who accept God's forgiveness are invited, by God's grace, to become." Thus, Shafer concluded, "it is not Jesus' death that...
...summer of 1993, Huntington argued in the journal Foreign Affairs that “the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural...
...course they should! If America does not do it now then we are failing future generations of humankind. There is a lot in our world money could also be used on, but we have enough in this country take care of problems here and progress into outer space. It's just a matter of the people demanding their government do both. The United States needs to stay on the cutting edge or China and Europe will pass us by. Chris Woltman Tampa...
...next time Mars and Earth brush past each other, almost three centuries from now, either we will have driven ourselves to extinction as a species, or (more optimistically) human colonists will be able to look down from the Martian surface at a prominent blue Earth and marvel at how humankind finally managed to conquer its inner gods of war. ANTHONY SALM Keizer...