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Some observers hope U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoys can persuade repressive regimes to relent. U.N. officials must certainly use their pulpits to condemn abuses and mobilize international (not simply bilateral) punitive measures. But history has shown that envoys rarely succeed unless the Security Council is united behind them. Until Sudan and Burma begin to hear Chinese footsteps, they will have little incentive to engage in good-faith negotiations...
...explain this silence, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has said that the more the international community pressures Sudan to comply with the ICC, the more likely it is that Sudan will renege on UNAMID deployment. But this is completely wrongheaded—it is precisely because Sudan’s commitment is so tenuous that further international pressure is crucial...
...attended a showing of the recent documentary, “In the Shadow of the Moon,” chronicling the American space expeditions of the late 60s and early 70s. Afterwards the film’s director David Sington answered audience questions...
...expat Wernher von Braun building our rockets, New Zealand immigrant William Pickering heading our unmanned program. In a time of flash-paper attention spans, it's similarly hard to picture any agency surviving the setbacks NASA did. Ranger 7 was the first unmanned U.S. ship to land on the moon--following the sequential failures of Rangers1 through 6. Think that program would make it as far as Ranger4 today...
...find that his neighbor's boy is arguing a case before the Supreme Court and hasn't mentioned it. "He don't have to," his neighbor answers. "He's gonna do it." A coda to that idea is offered in the elegiac new documentary In the Shadow of the Moon. One of the scenes shows the men of Mission Control lighting cigars after the1969 splashdown of Apollo11. Behind them, on a control room viewing screen, two words are projected: TASK ACCOMPLISHED. That may be a less triumphal phrasing than "mission," but whatever you call it, Americans knew enough...