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...warfare and of Saddam's unleashing chemical or biological weapons complicate the equation, they change none of the fundamentals. The benefit could be enormous. For one thing, the 22-member Arab League lacks any truly democratic government. Suppose "Iraq: The Rerun" ended with a transformed Iraq, standing as the sole democracy in the region, with a government that threatened no one. That alone sounds worth it tome...
...fight off a Chinese media report which claimed its financial statements were unreliable. At the time, Greencool said that certain parts of the report were untrue, but didn't elaborate. In March, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange questioned the company about a large advance payment made to its sole supplier, controlled by Greencool chairman and founder Gu Chu-jun. Regulators wanted to know "whether the transactions were conducted on normal commercial terms," according to a company statement. No action has been taken, although a spokeswoman for the Hong Kong exchange says it is "still reserving the right to take action...
...store credit, but with eight-hour workdays. Another catch in this appealing little fantasy is that said shoes are never kept by the magazine staff. Sadly, everything borrowed for stories must be returned as brand-new—which means, for example, that before a shoot every single shoe sole has to be covered in protective masking tape by the fashion assistant. This is so that afterwards, a store can actually sell the shoes on to unsuspecting customers—i.e., the real society heiresses, who can then declare that their footwear was “seen in Vogue...
...seminar outside their concentration area will still be able to do so, at no penalty—they will merely use an elective, as everyone does under the current system. It makes no sense to penalize students who wish to take a seminar in their concentration area for the sole purpose of forcing first-years to be intellectually curious...
...bluntly ignores the fact that divestment would bring further misery to the Palestinian people, given the strong dependency between their economy and Israel’s. Besides being thus shortsighted, the petition presumptuously claims that its signers know the answer to the problems in the Middle East. They put sole responsibility on Israel for resolving the conflict, entirely ignoring the efforts Israel has made in putting an end to violence, providing copious aid to the Palestinian people and the fact that its own people are under incessant attacks...