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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that further delay could "unravel" Kosovo's peace process, but there is no clear path to agreement. The current U.N. proposal, backed by the U.S. and the E.U., would recognize Kosovo as a state but put it under E.U. supervision to safeguard Serbs and other minorities. But Russian officials have said that the move would encourage separatist movements in other parts of the world, including their own backyard...
Barack Obama must have been nodding in agreement. In his own address a few weeks earlier, Obama dwelled on "impoverished, weak and ungoverned states." China came up twice. He did linger over Russia but less as a powerful competitor than as a country too impoverished, weak and ungoverned to safeguard its nukes...
...made to highlight the needs of the College and was to be screened at the dinners. Narrated by Pusey and Bundy and written by novelist John P. Marquand ‘15, the film emphasized the importance of Harvard’s history in encouraging alumni to safeguard its financial future. On April 12, 1958 “To the Age that is Waiting” debuted on Boston television, according to the Boston Sunday Herald...
...court on Wednesday denied an appeal by Christian convert Lina Joy to make her switch from Islam recognized by law. A multi-ethnic state composed largely of Muslim Malays, Christian and Buddhist Chinese, and Hindu and Sikh Indians, Malaysia has long prided itself on its diversity of faiths. To safeguard this religious heterogeneity, the country's constitution sets out a dual-track legal system in which Muslims are bound by Shari'a law for issues such as marriage, property and death, while members of other faiths follow civil...
...composition, abuse, and widespread access to CORI by private employers have created serious racial and penal injustices. When CORI was created in the 1970s as a database for criminal records, it was intended to improve both the efficiency of the criminal justice system and “to safeguard the privacy of the CORI subjects, so that this obviously embarrassing and damaging information about them would get into the hands of only people with a clear need to know the information,” according to a report by Ernest Winsor of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.Over the past decade...