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...unhappy about the judicial pursuit of its erstwhile chief. And they've made their unhappiness known by pressuring President Ricardo Lagos into convening the National Security Council, a body created by Pinochet to deal with national crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth for Pinochet may be that the flap sparked by his arrest is nothing approximating a national crisis. Seizing power again...
There's a famous psychological experiment where a drawing is presented to a subject, who either sees a toothless old woman or an attractive young lady. The United Nations is designed analogously. It will be attractive to us or ineffectual not on the basis of the infrastructure that it has put in place but on the basis of the mindset that its member countries--and their citizens--have towards it. On this UN Day, celebrate the global society, celebrate the ideals of peace and justice, and consider that all human beings, Palestinian, Israeli and every one else, have the same...
...hard to predict whether another toothless, albeit public, scolding will effect much of a response from the IOC, which has proved itself one of the world's most inept bureaucracies. The White House report advocates sweeping modifications: Creating an objective drug policy administrator, comprehensive out-of-competition testing, new labeling for dietary supplements and intensive international research. But when the starting whistle blows, neither the White House nor the IOC will be making the final call: Instead, the fans will ultimately decide (via their spending choices and their viewership) what kind of Games they want to see: Cleaner, Kinder, Slower...
...Richard S. Lee ’01, a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is Editorial Chair of The Crimson. His slapshot, clocked at 53 miles-per-hour, is pretty damn worthless, but his toothless grin is guaranteed, someday, to win the heart of some lucky canuck lass...
...deep divisions in the Security Council over the future of sanctions against Iraq. "The U.S. wants the new monitoring system as a basis to maintain sanctions against Iraq," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But the Russians and the French are deeply opposed to sanctions, and favor a fairly toothless monitoring system. But accepting an obviously weak monitoring system leaves the Clinton administration open to Republican attack." At the same time, Washington will be left isolated on sanctions if its pushes for a monitoring system so intrusive that Iraq refuses to allow it back...