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...Council (“Reforming the UN,” editorial, Apr. 12). Opposing the Council is not a “show of disregard for multilateralism and compromise” but rather a vote for effective human rights protection. The new Council is not an improvement from its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission. Other than where a country is located, there is not a single criterion for membership, and countries must rotate off the Council after a two-year term. Thus, the new organization merely ensures that human rights abusers will continue to occupy seats on the Council...
Shapin said he hopes to prompt discussion about improving the undergraduate program and noted the success of his predecessor...
...Iran. The U.S. justified its vote by heralding its own high standards for human rights, while lambasting the current resolution for its lenient admission procedures. John R. Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., sharply criticized the newly established Human Rights Council, calling it only marginally better than its predecessor. The U.S. proposal, unlike the one that passed, required member nations to garner a super majority of the vote rather than a simple majority in order to win a seat on the council. The more stringent standard was meant to prevent countries like Iran and Sudan—notorious...
Olmert's desire to step out of his predecessor's shadow may have influenced his campaign pledge to initiate a withdrawal from parts of the West Bank by 2010. After the relative success of the Gaza pullout and the rise to power of Hamas in the Palestinian territories, many Israelis have abandoned faith in peace negotiations with the Palestinians in favor of unilateral moves. But withdrawing from the West Bank, which is home to 230,000 settlers, may prove more wrenching than it was in Gaza. "Sharon never meant to go as far as Olmert is proposing," says Natan Sharansky...
...this season, like its predecessor, begins as a question mark for all boats in the perennially tight EARC, and few conclusions will be made before Eastern Sprints...