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...hopes of Africans for a pittance”—strong words for a leading African minister working toward the same stated goal as PACJA. Yet perhaps Mwenda’s comment aptly calls into question the “hopes” Africans harbor for the summit??is climate change the central issue here, or a symbolic rebalancing of power, a demonstration of Africa’s importance at the cost of global efforts? The Group of 77’s blocking efforts earlier this week would seemingly serve that objective better than one of progress...
...China and the United States, the largest, most petulant children in this mess of a summit sandbox? Paradoxical practices have plagued their policies as well. China has publicly complained about the “lack of transparency” on the part of Denmark, the summit??s host nation, in its composition of the talks. Yet China has raised obstructive technical objections to specific lines of text throughout the week—eerily similar to the personal account of China’s actions at last year’s climate talks in Paris, shared with...
...trade products,” said Sarah M. LaFleur ’06, co-director of the IMPACT summit. “They’re often slightly more expensive, but only because neither the producers nor the environment are being exploited.” While one of the summit??s immediate goals was to place fair trade bananas in dining halls seven days a week, the peal appeal is just one element of HIDO’s campaign. “A lot of us want to be in Africa or India right now, but we?...
...Bank completely.”Both professors displayed a variety of different maps to support their claims, and frequently attacked the veracity of their opponents’ sources.In response to Dershowitz’s claim that his knowledge of the peace process—including the 2000 Camp David summit??—was based on what President Clinton had told him “directly and personally,” Chomsky said that his own arguments were based on written and accessible evidence.“You can believe one of two things,” Chomsky said...
...Universities seem to have lost a lot of energy about HIV issues,” said Drew E. Altman, president and chief executive officer of the Kaiser Foundation, a member of the summit??s advisory board and a speaker at the Plenary Session of the conference. “It’s great for Harvard that there’s a student-driven conference...