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...think your show has a positive impact? -Clifford DuVernois Long Beach, Calif.If I'm an advocate of anything, it's the virtue of curiosity. But mostly the show is about me having a good time and someone else paying...
...want to discuss how many tyrants the U.S. has tolerated vs. how many it has fought. But wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have made on the dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag of peace first and then just waited to see what might happen. Bernhard Schroeder, FREIBURG, GERMANY...
...however, has yet to take that responsible line. Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have asked UBS to tell its Chinese client to “halt its operations in Sudan or implement a rigorous corporate governance policy that would mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
Those at the film premiere didn’t show the same faith in the impact of their event...
...Tajel al-Din Dissa, an economics lecturer at the university, is among those investing in property. He rents one house to an AU officer and is building a second, which he hopes will push his rental earnings above his university salary. But he has mixed feelings about the overall impact of the boom on Darfur. "The per capita income has increased because many people are finding work with the [aid organizations] and the African Union or the United Nations, and then there is a knock-on effect of more purchases in the market," he says, sitting on the mud-brick...