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Despite the stringent security, the court’s building in The Hague is unimpressive. Hours of listening to evidence against a few Serbian men who allegedly murdered several Bosnian-Muslim families makes one believe that the dream of international justice is possible...
...Coincidentally, the country's legislature passed even more stringent gun laws just hours after the shooting occurred. Still, while it's not yet known how the Erfurt shooter acquired his weapons, the deadly incident is a reminder that many believe Germany's gun problem isn't with its laws, but with existing weaponry. "Gun ownership was very high in the former East Germany, and when the Eastern bloc collapsed, those surplus military weapons flooded the private market," says Rebecca Peters, a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, the philanthropic arm of the Soros Foundation in New York...
...major changes to Harvard’s study abroad policies discussed by the Faculty Council last week would be a welcome shift from the program’s currently gratuitous bureaucracy. The Committee on Out-of-Residence Study wisely recommended simplifying the study abroad application procedure and relaxing the stringent guidelines on programs and prerequisites. Instead of forcing students to prove that their program is a “special opportunity,” as is now the case, these recommendations present a watershed opportunity to make study abroad at Harvard an accessible and important part of the undergraduate experience...
...needed to begin the process of establishing the new court in The Hague. Even though the court’s ratification met widespread praise amongst the leading democracies in the world, President Bush and many other prominent American political leaders steadfastly oppose the court’s creation. Such stringent opposition is unwise and even harmful to America’s best interests...
...because of their violations, HSPH will subject any future research by Xu and Christiani to more frequent and stringent review than other researchers at the school...