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...With a showdown looming in the United Nations Security Council next week over Iran's nuclear program, Iranian chief negotiator Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, tells TIME that while Iran has no intention of obtaining nuclear weapons, the country won't suspend its research program as a bargaining step in negotiations with other countries over its nuclear program and that the threat of sanctions will have no influence. In this interview conducted in his Tehran office before Sunday's announcement of an Iranian-Russian agreement on a Russian proposal to establish a joint uranium enrichment...
While the Harvard Salient faced no formal repercussions for publishing four of the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed, the executives of the Daily Illini did not get off so easily. The publisher of the Daily Illini suspended the paper’s editor-in-chief and opinions page editor last Wednesday after the paper printed the polemical cartoons. According to a statement published by the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, the suspensions were enacted at the request of the newsroom staff because of the failure of editors Acton H. Gorton and Chuck Prochaska to consult...
...desist from its defiance on the nuclear issue. In Cairo and Riyadh and during her Thursday session with Persian Gulf ministers gathered in Abu Dhabi for a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting, Rice is seeking to solidify moderate Arab support for U.S. and European efforts to pressure Iran to suspend its quest for a nuclear weapon...
...declined to renew their contracts, garnering nationwide media coverage. According to Usmani, SLAM will likely focus on persuading HUDS not to renew its contract with Odwalla, which is “the best we could hope for here.” Usmani added that he believes getting HUDS to suspend the other contracts midway is not “feasible at all.” HUDS maintained its refusal to release detailed monetary information about the contacts. “Releasing dollar amounts attached to contracts compromises the competitive bidding process,” Snyder wrote in an e-mail...
...interpreting the statements from Hamas about how it is taking very seriously its responsibilities to the Palestinian people as a sign that Hamas will try to behave in a more moderate fashion, at least initially, and to maintain the strategic decision it took a year ago to suspend attacks on Israel...