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...Rather than stubbornly vote down the resolution and refuse to seek a seat on the Council, the U.S. should act upon its supposed commitment to human rights by encouraging measures that represent improvement in this arena. Especially given the prominence of the U.S. on the world stage, we are concerned about the international perception of this move. The U.S. cannot afford to simply flex its muscles like a belligerent bully; instead, it should use its strength and influence to garner support and work collaboratively to improve human rights globally...
...embolism’ as ‘embulism’ (the speaker mispronounced it, I swear), the bell rang and my career as a competitive speller was D-O-N-E, with a capital D. The girl next to me got the word measles, and I left the stage tearfully.I promise I’ve moved on.Since the event seven years ago, I have hardly thought about my experience in the spelling bee. As a pre-med, I now know what an embolism is, and how to spell it, but I had rarely thought about how that one word...
...Right before Mick Jagger took the stage in Shanghai for the first date of the Stones’ landmark tour last week, he answered a few questions for the press. Though the hot topic of the international press was the official ban of several of the raunchier Stones songs in the Middle Kingdom, the two biggest newspapers in Shanghai didn’t even cover the show...
...between market-oriented reformers and those on the far left who want to redistribute income and return to more of a state-run economy. And so while the former economics professor begins to crunch the hard numbers of a narrow victory, the larger-than-life figure on the world stage will have to give up the privileges and prestige that came with being Prime Minister, heavy lifting...
...protracted political deadlock or signals the last chapter in Berlusconi?s unlikely political career remains to be seen. But whatever the final result, the story for now is still all about Silvio. The Prime Minister?s shoot-from-the-hip style of politics and oversized presence on the public stage managed to make up ground in the final weeks after polls had suggested he was headed toward a humiliating defeat. Though he has largely failed to deliver on promises to remake his country's outdated economic system, Berlusconi?s real victory may be that Italian politics-across the spectrum-will...