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...have to add the footnote of genocide to Allison's optimistic proposition," said Samantha Power, executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. "With Sierra Leone and Kosovo, we have a testament to the limits of progress and the bounds of state behavior...
...Practically every chipmaker, computer maker and network outfit you could name - except Microsoft, which hit a 52-week low on some foul earnings rumors - was movin' on up after Gateway, PMC Sierra, and Juniper Networks all posted reassuring earnings in a day full of happy news. (Even Abby Joseph Cohen, Wall Street's kindly aunt, pitched in with a declaration that the S&P 500 is 15 percent undervalued...
...false choice. We can do both - taking out energy, and leaving only footprints. Critics of increased exploration and production ignore the remarkable technological advances in the last 10 years that have dramatically decreased the environmental impact of oil and gas exploration." In other words, Bush never had the Sierra Club vote anyway. But he might still make a Big Oil energy policy palatable; this is a nation that has always preferred cheap gas to clean air anyway...
...advertising on their behalf, but there is no guarantee that the groups will do so. It is also unclear how widely this prohibition should apply: although Clinton was unrealistic in her demands that several groups supporting her be exempt from the deal, she is correct that the pro-Clinton Sierra Club and the pro-Lazio "Emergency Committee to Stop Hillary Rodham Clinton" are different beasts...
...company's expansion is at least partly driven by mounting international pressure to stop the trade in "blood diamonds"--stones unearthed in African killing fields that have helped fund conflicts in Angola, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. De Beers was rocked by disclosures that in 1992 the company bought $14 million worth of diamonds from Angolan rebels and has since scrambled to burnish its public image. In March, De Beers began selling stones with guarantees that they had not originated in war-torn areas. With its London announcement, the company went further, demanding that clients sign assurances...