Word: supportable
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First some facts. The WTO is basically a framework of international trade agreed among its member governments, together with a nascent dispute settlement mechanism for enforcing those agreements. It is much less an international bureaucracy. The Geneva headquarters hosts a mere 500 workers, including support staff. This staff mainly supports international negotiations, analyzes trade patterns and manages the dispute settlement process. Contrary to charges on the streets of Seattle, it does not write international trade rules: the member governments do that in the course of negotiations...
...expectations are unreasonable-if there can no longer be Big Men or Women On Campus-then surely those seeking leadership should somehow compensate for their lack of pre-existing popular support. They should possess the necessary personal attributes to create such support during the brief duration of the council campaign. As the situation currently stands, and has often stood in the past, those few students who vote in two weeks will merely be expressing a lukewarm preference for one candidate over the others, and not an impassioned advocacy. Even if there were serious issues at stake--which admittedly there...
...Berliner '02, an adamant supporter of herbal therapy, stocks her medicine cabinet with blue-green algae, Vitamin C and St John's wort, which is claimed to support a healthy mood and even help relieve mild depression...
...Spirulina, a nutrient-dense form of blue-green algae, is said to promote increased energy, as well as support internal cleansing...
Apart from the oppressed minority of conservatives at the Salient and the many rumored "closet conservatives" on the Harvard campus, University Professor Cornel West '74 enjoys a high degree of popularity among students. His fiery sermonizing lecture style leads students through Afro-American Studies 10, while his support of campus progressive movements such as the Living Wage Campaign lends tangibility to his activist ideals. West is one of the rare highly regarded intellectuals who actually makes time for interacting with his students. However, despite his popularity on campus and intellectual standing in general, it would appear as if certain conservatives...