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When Arafat spoke at the Institute of Politics [IOP] last month he called for the rapid implementation of the agreement reached between Israel and Palestine...
...cannot respond to crises quickly without greater power. To ask the U.N. to respond quickly while at the same time requiring it to be subordinate to individual countries is an impossible task. The U.N. has no rapid reaction force of its own--it must ask each country individually for use of its forces...
Speed is impossible under these circumstances. But the U.N. is trying to work around these problems. While the Dutch are the only peacekeeping country to advocate the U.N.'s own rapid reaction force, the Canadians and Danes are working on implementing their own plans for a faster response with their own countries' peacekeeping forces...
...resolved in Washington's budget showdown will affect almost every American. "This is too much too fast," said Tyson, who argued that the Republican plan to balance the budget in seven years favors the wealthy. But Domenici looked at the same picture through a different lens. Without bold and rapid cutbacks, he contended, middle-class Americans will be saddled "for a long, long time to come with the hidden tax of having to pay the interest on the national debt and ultimately pay off the debt. And that is the most significant impediment to a higher standard of living...
...psychopaths. Goleman cites some chilling research into brutality by Robert Hare, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia. Hare found that psychopaths, when hooked up to electrodes and told they are going to receive a shock, show none of the visceral responses that fear of pain typically triggers: rapid heartbeat, sweating and so on. How could the threat of punishment deter such people from committing crimes...