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...Christian-right leaders want to keep claiming that Hillary Clinton is evangelical America's worst nightmare, they'll have to explain the standing ovation she received at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Other candidates were invited to Warren's global AIDS summit, but only Clinton showed up. (Barack Obama attended last year.) And she pointedly refused to play the outsider. "Twenty-five years ago, when mostly young gay men began dying, we certainly did not talk about it in church," Clinton told the crowd. "We've come a long way." She still has a way to go. In a recent...
...toward climate change, both domestically and globally, it is imperative that Harvard throw its institutional weight behind such emission policies. Al Gore ’69 just won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, and currently, the United States is engaged in a global climate summit in Bali, which is looking past Kyoto to the next generation of climate regulations. There is no better time for Harvard to show publicly its support for these measures. Besides demonstrating support symbolically, emissions standards will also have pragmatic effects here in Cambridge. For one, they extend Harvard?...
...sponsored peace summit last week concluded with a pledge by Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a final solution by the end of 2008 to the decades-old regional conflict. But Palestinians wanted more out of Annapolis than mere words and hazy promises. Before the summit, Abbas was pushing the Israelis to release up to 2,000 Palestinian inmates, but Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert refused. (Israel is holding more than 10,000 Palestinian inmates, many in jail for for years without being charged or put on trial.) It was only after U.S. prodding, Palestinian sources told TIME, that Israel...
...results of Annapolis, the main players at the summit vowed that negotiations would be off to a quick start. But no sooner did Olmert and Abbas fly back in the Middle East than they began issuing contradictory statements. Olmert said that the "end of 2008" for a final solution was actually a flexible deadline; meanwhile, Abbas refused to accept Olmert's declaration that Israel was "a Jewish state," since to do otherwise might take away the right of 4.5 million Palestinian refugees who are still demanding their right to return to their original homes, vacated...
Stopping in Cairo after the Annapolis summit, Abbas was urged by Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak to resume talks with Hamas. The Islamists were elected to run the Palestinian government in January 2006, but neither Abbas nor the international community accepts their full legitimacy. Hamas' charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. But after Annapolis, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are making it their priority to urge Abbas into rebuilding unity with Hamas, even if the Bush Administration and Israel oppose the idea. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem