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Unfortunately, the United States never signed the convention. With a Hiroshima-induced World War II victory fresh in their minds, the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower administration nixed the convention for fear that it would impinge on America’s strategic use of nuclear weapons. Half a century later, it seems just a little hypocritical that it is in order to preserve the option of using weapons of mass destruction that the U.S. will not be held legally responsible for damage inflicted during a war waged in order to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction?...
Liora R. Halperin ’05 is a joint concentrator in history and Near Eastern languages and civilizations in Kirkland House...
While students complained about requirements for language citations and joint concentrations, several said the tutorial program was successful...
With Japanese and U.S. technology battling it out at the top, the only hope for domestic carmakers without joint-venture partners is to capture the bottom end of the market, then begin the slow ascent up the price-and-sophistication ladder. That's the path chosen by BYD, the former bombmaker. The Flyer retails for about $4,700, making it affordable to the 50 million Chinese earning at least $7,000 a year, whom the government considers middle class. "Look around my office," says Liu, the BYD general manager. He has one dusty filing cabinet, bare whitewashed walls...
...sophisticated to knock off. They were underestimating Chinese ingenuity. In 2002 a Volkswagen-like subcompact made by a small company in Anhui province now called SAIC-Chery Automobile began appearing: it was made with components provided by suppliers that were believed to have signed exclusive deals with Volkswagen's joint venture. More recently, Chery has run afoul of GM by releasing a car, called the QQ, that looks almost exactly like a GM model--the Spark--that didn't hit the Chinese market until December. PSA Peugeot Citroen, the French maker of the successful Citroen sedan in central China, faces...