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...reason, says China expert and director of research at France's Institute of International and Strategic Relations Jean-Vincent Brisset, is "because France has repeatedly shown itself to be the weak link in Europe by knuckling under to pressure when other nations push China back." The Chinese, Brisset says, "only respect those who stand up for themselves, which the British and Germans have done in their dealings with the Dalai Lama before, and even Poland - which is hosting the disputed event - is doing as well...
...Mumbai has a dog-eat-dog mentality. There's no emotion; it's all about making money," he says. "But this time, the threat is too serious and too real ... Now we need change. We need to look beyond 'my life, my family, my business.' Someone's got to push this change, and it has to be us." As Ramanathan has been telling her radio listeners, "Start with getting your voter registration. Start by voting." Of course, it's precisely that expected backlash at the polls that politicians are positioning themselves to exploit...
...among students.A decision en masse to pursue disciplinary cases before the SFJB instead of the Ad Board will hopefully impress upon the Administration a need for urgent change. And with a clear mandate from students about the need for change, we hope the Ad Board Review Committee can quickly push forward much-needed reform, for that is the only path to judicial fairness at Harvard College...
...because it limits the number of human vessels the flu can use as a base to mutate into new forms. Some economists have argued that, under some conditions, each flu shot reduces the number of people at risk for infection by 1.5. In the extreme case, we could collectively push the flu to the brink of extinction through vaccination...
...fundamentalist terrorists. Mumbai has been a focus of the tension between the parties, as several of the so-called Hindu terror arrests have taken place in or near the city. Perhaps the size and scale of this most recent attack will force the country's political leaders to finally push through a long-shelved proposal to co-ordinate intelligence on terror incidents between the states and prevent a repeat of Wednesday's bloody spectacle...