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...military expenditures. A recent report from the National Intelligence Council identifies the AIDS epidemic as a threat to global and regional security because of its potential to disrupt the military, political and social aspects of key countries including China, Russia and India. This threat is developing right now, with Russia??s infection rate doubling every year. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the world to donate the $10 billion a year necessary to fight these destabilizing epidemics, of which America’s share is $2.5 billion. We should donate at least this figure, because only...
...investments, the government says, also undercut the project’s mission of providing fair and unbiased advice on the privatization of Russia??s economy...
Before running aground of yet another corporate scandal, the University needs to be rapidly redirected away from the peril of corporate and personal interests and towards the interests of the Harvard community and the public—here or in Russia??that the school should be serving...
...defends itself against al Qaeda in Afghanistan, these same radical activists are silent. When the U.S. supports the Turkish government, which violently suppresses the Kurdish people and their human rights, these activists are silent. When the U.S. gives aid to the Russian government and looks the other way at Russia??s actions in Chechnya, these activists are silent. However, when Jewish people in Israel defend themselves against people who are trying to wipe an entire population into the sea, these same people are up in arms...
...radical policy of “Glasnost,” or openness, in the mid 1980s. Russians were besieged by Western television, film and fashion. Now, women watch Brazilian soap operas and aspire to dress like Julia Roberts and Giselle. The Western media even seems to have made Russia??s holy babushka (grandmother) an anachronism here...