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Most notoriously, China has consistently used its place as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council to dilute resolutions aimed at pressuring the Sudanese government to stop the ethnic slaughter in Darfur. A Chinese state-owned company owns 40% of the oil concession in the south of Sudan, and there are reportedly 4,000 Chinese troops there protecting Beijing's oil interests. (By contrast, despite the noise that China made when one of its soldiers was killed by an Israeli air strike on a U.N. post in Lebanon last summer, there are only 1,400 Chinese troops serving...
...Syracuse University; Kim B. Clark ’74, former Harvard Business School dean and now president of Brigham Young University-Idaho; Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan; Steven Knapp, provost of Johns Hopkins University; David W. Oxtoby '72, president of Pomona College; Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Harold E. Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president and 1989 Nobel laureate in medicine...
...Syracuse University; Kim B. Clark ’74, former Harvard Business School dean and now president of Brigham Young University-Idaho; Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan; Steven Knapp , provost of Johns Hopkins University; David W. Oxtoby '72, president of Pomona College; Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Harold E. Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president and 1989 Nobel laureate in medicine...
...idea of granting him clemency. But beyond the fleeting, visceral satisfaction of giving Saddam the same violent end that he administered to his victims, there's little political upside for the Iraqi government in putting him to death. It will not slow down the pace of Iraq's sectarian slaughter, which is being driven by an array of uncontrollable forces. But it will almost certainly fuel Sunni rage and scuttle Pri me Minister Nouri al-Maliki's program of reconciliation, which may be the last chance to avoid an even bloodier civil war. Any surge in violence by Sunni insurgents...
...took Iraqis a remarkably short time to get the tyrant out of their psyche. One reason was that there were so many new terrors with which to contend - roadside bombs, suicide bombers, kidnappings and, eventually, sectarian slaughter. The other reason was the televised trial of Saddam, which served as a form of group therapy, on a national scale. As they watched him in court, day after day, Iraqis grew less fearful of him. His frequent outbursts began to seem like schoolboy petulance, and when he was scolded by the judge it was as if the class bully was being sent...