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...world--still sounds quixotic, but real incremental progress is being made. In March he cut a deal with Russia to reduce Cold War stockpiles. At the summit, he secured commitments from Ukraine, Chile and others to safeguard nuclear materials. And in May he hopes to finalize new sanctions to punish Iran for its nuclear ambitions. These are accomplishments of a statesman who dreamed, as a student 27 years ago, of bringing the wisdom of "Thoreau, Jefferson and Whitman to bear on the twisted logic" of the nuclear arms race...
...Russia, which the Administration has touted as a convert to the punish-Iran coalition, has in fact not changed its position from the last round of sanctions: Moscow supports penalties only against companies involved directly in the proliferation business. "Sanctions must be directed exclusively on the resolution of nonproliferation tasks and not aimed at the financial and economic suffocation of this country," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko late last month. Such sanctions have failed until now, and Washington wants new measures to raise the cost in economic pain for the Tehran regime's defiance. But so far there...
This is where Merkel stomped on the brake. Greece will not get a single cent from the E.U., except in the direst of straits, and then only as loans. As Voltaire famously preached, harsh retribution serves not only to punish the culprit, but also "encourages the others" to remain virtuous. Surely, if Greece had gotten the handout, other PIIGS might have merrily continued in their extravagant ways. (Read: "Germany: Tensions...
...current model combines disincentives to storing materials at [Harvard Depository] with procedures that punish the most generous providers of materials,” the task force report states...
Jaramillo took a leave of absence, returned to Colombia, and secured her return as an international student. Because of this experience, Jaramillo sypathizes with those students who unlike her did not have a choice in their immigration status. “You can’t punish children for the sins of their fathers,” she says. “In any other circumstance that would seem so absurd, to make someone pay with their entire life...