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Rarely does a human-rights investigation cause the kind of geopolitical ruckus that has been generated by the U.N. probe into last winter's fighting in Gaza that left more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. Israel is mounting an 11th hour diplomatic blitz to scupper U.N. discussion of the Human Rights Council investigation led by South African judge Richard Goldstone, which accuses the Israeli army and Palestinian Hamas militants of committing war crimes. Israel insists the probe is biased and, in the words of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, "twisted, fraudulent and tendentious." At a Security Council meeting...
...Investment Corp. - is already looking at possible investments, as are some of our state-owned companies. A few years ago, one of our better-run companies, CNOOC, tried to buy a second-tier oil company in Los Angeles, UNOCAL, but backed off after your own xenophobic politicians created a ruckus. We hope that in the future your Administration will help explain to the American people - not to mention the members of Congress in both parties - that increased direct Chinese investment in the U.S. is in both our interests. We have so many dollars piling up, we're going...
...Clark-Atlanta University professors recently defended a memo they had written for the Atlanta Black Leadership Forum, which caused a media ruckus when it was leaked. Their memo collected a number of statements supposedly circulating in the black community, including a call to rally around Borders in order to avoid a head-to-head runoff election with Norwood. "We have said very clearly that African-American concerns should be considered by all of the candidates," says Clark-Atlanta professor Keith Boone. "It's no more racist for the African-American community to have an agenda than...
...famous Cindy Sheehan—who holds George W. Bush personally responsible for the death of her soldier son—learned this the hard way when she came to town earlier this summer to stir up her usual ruckus outside the former president’s new Dallas home. As Bush’s house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac, Sheehan couldn’t get closer than the top of the street, and the neighborhood’s expansive green lawns and wide driveways absorbed her group’s attempts at charismatic exhortation...
...there is a big ruckus going on, and the students are running amuck, and the media is hyping it up, and Senator Grassley is nosing around, all you care about is quieting this down,“ he says