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After all your advocacy work to help Darfur, why do you think the situation is not improving? -Antoinette Vermilye, Crans-près-céligny, Switzerland[Sudanese President] Omar al-Bashir doesn't have any incentive to do anything else. We can't sanction Sudan because we don't do trade with it. And al-Bashir can frame any peace-keeping mission as a Western invasion of another Muslim country. So people like the Chinese, who do business with these guys, have to say, "We're not going to trade with you anymore. You guys are going to have...
...Somewhat ironically, and probably non-traditionally, however, my three years at this institution have nurtured in me a deep skepticism of the premises that sanction this narcissism. I firmly believe that the part of us that finds security in our assumed excellence must be repudiated. Even in the most well-intentioned among us, inflated confidence in our own capabilities breeds an arrogance that imperils substantial social change...
...This is, of course, not an argument against the legalization of marijuana. Perhaps there is a legitimate argument to be made that all of these problems could be easily dissolved by legal sanction for the drug trade. But until that point comes, we light up with the legal system we have, not the legal system we wish we had, and we cannot merely pretend that our actions have no consequences...
...take a different view of the ONLF. Your security forces detained four American personnel because they were dealing with the ONLF in some way, or talking to them or using them to help them operate in Somalia. Meles: As far as we know, these personalities did not have official sanction to do that what they were doing. They were violating their own code of conduct. That is why they were stopped. We have no proof that they were in contact with the ONLF but there are indications that they might be moving in that direction. We stopped it from happening...
...only Florida, which announced plans to schedule its primary on Jan. 29, has been informed that its delegates will be cut, barring a compromise. But others, including Michigan, could suffer the same fate. The Republican National Committee has said it will also sanction early-acting states--there are as many as seven--but it has been less strict in reining them in. What's more, on the Democratic side, the DNC granted exceptions to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada (pleasing African-American constituencies in South Carolina and Hispanics in Nevada), and these "first four" have coaxed pledges from...