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Still, as Chan pointed out, "No previous pandemic has been detected so early, watched so closely in real time right at the very beginning. The world can now reap the benefits of pandemic-preparedness investments made over the last five years...
...What is different from previous health-care-reform efforts (like Bill Clinton's) has been Obama's skill - so far - at keeping potential adversaries at the table. But at a certain point, the President won't be able to remain so (deliberately) vague about what he wants to see in the final product, and the details of the plan will very much determine whether potential opponents will support him in the end. Nowhere is that clearer than on the controversial question of whether the health-care-reform scheme will include a "public option," which would give people the choice...
...right to continue building inside the boundaries of the settlements to accommodate their "natural growth," an argument flatly rejected by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," Obama said in his Cairo speech. "This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop." (Watch video of 'Graffiti for Hire in the West Bank...
...leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys offer Somalia and the world? Sheik Hassan and I once worked together, guided by principle, and I believe I am still on the same road. What he believed to be impossible became possible. Sheik Hassan believed Ethiopia [which invaded in 2006 to topple a previous Islamist government that included Sharif and Aweys] would not withdraw and change was not feasible. [But] Ethiopia pulled its troops out of Somalia in 2008 and change came. He had a role to play and could have helped us to reinstate our nationhood. He has a duty to make Somalia...
...fact, quietly intransigent across the board. I asked him what steps he was willing to take for peace. "The initiative should come from the party with the resources. We have no resources," he said and repeated a previous offer to negotiate an arrangement based on Israel's withdrawing to pre-1967 borders. What about formal recognition of Israel? "Who is more in need of recognition," he asked, "Israel, which has a nuclear arsenal, great power and resources, or the Palestinian people? Which party should be given attention, the hangman or the victim, the oppressor or the oppressed?" He also...