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...School’s international law program has languished since Anne-Marie Slaughter, one of its premier scholars, left to head Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs last year, she said...
...proliferates across the world--Africa is the latest continent afflicted with the bug--China continues to massively underreport its SARS epidemic. As late as last Saturday, China's health authorities continued to stick to an accounting of 60 SARS deaths and about 1,300 cases--even though China's Premier Wen Jiabao visited You'an Hospital, where medical staff say the full caseload there has not been incorporated into the figures...
When a medical team from the World Health Organization (WHO) met with China's Vice Premier Wu Yi on April 9, members hoped they had found an ally in their efforts to get bureaucrats to come clean on the extent of the mainland's SARS epidemic. The Communist Party's most senior woman, Wu is a tough, gray-haired former trade negotiator, and she understood that the free exchange of information on the disease, believed to have originated in China, could help WHO investigators prevent a global pandemic. Wu said she had personally dispatched crews to two provinces to investigate...
...Penn Relays are one of the nation’s premier amateur track and field competitions...
...addition to rebuilding the NEA as a premier public institution through which he can “provide leadership in building a national consensus to support arts and arts education,” Gioia says he hopes to establish what he calls “democratic access” to art as a worthy goal compatible with that of artistic excellence...