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...They work long hours, put in incredible amounts of effort and make important changes in the quality of life for Harvard students and the surrounding communities, but leadership alone does not make an intellectual. These leaders could enthusiastically talk you under the table with plans for new improvements and new programs but are just as unlikely to know why it matters what they are doing. They work with like-minded students but might not be able to convince a disinterested party why, on a deep philosophical level, they are adding anything more to life than an inveterate slacker...
Shashi Tharoor--the UN's director of communication and special projects, and a senior aide to Secretary-General Kofi Annan--was scheduled to speak on "The United Nations in the New Millennium," but instead, as he freely admitted to his audience, he chose to focus on the current state of the organization...
...only is the United States the "only developed country to get a break" in UN dues--its dues are capped at 25 percent even though it constitutes 29 percent of the world economy--but the placement of the UN headquarters in New York City pumps $3.2 billion into the American economy each year...
...Hall-of-Famer is an assistant coach to Belinda "Boe" Pearman, his assistant when he coached the New England Blizzard of the now-defunct American Basketball League...
...reservations expressed by its European and Arab allies over bombing - and the resultant removal of United Nations weapons monitors - may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting Friday or Saturday to adopt a resolution easing some sanctions against Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming up domestic support for a shift by insisting that the key to stopping Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction is to have monitors on the ground in Iraq - exactly the argument used by the European allies against last December...