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...latest trash, the damage to film fans’ wallets will already be done. Critics lose. Moviegoers lose. Studios win…maybe. Savvy cineastes already know that films withheld from critics are usually terrible, and avoid them accordingly. Fans disappointed by this season’s batch of un-reviewed movies—including stinkers like the Comedy Central spin-off “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector” and the Mo’Nique star vehicle “Phat Girlz”—have learned an expensive lesson: never judge a movie...
...editors: I wholeheartedly disagree with your castigation of the U.S. for its opposition to the newly-adopted UN Human Rights Council (“Reforming the UN,” editorial, Apr. 12). Opposing the Council is not a “show of disregard for multilateralism and compromise” but rather a vote for effective human rights protection. The new Council is not an improvement from its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission. Other than where a country is located, there is not a single criterion for membership, and countries must rotate off the Council after...
...Tehran is also keenly aware of the diplomatic difficulties facing the U.S. in the standoff. Even as they chided Iran for having conducted the latest experiment, Russia and China remain adamantly opposed to even threatening UN sanctions against Iran. And recent reports about U.S. planning for potential military action momentarily turned the conversation from how to deal with Iran's bad behavior to how to restrain...
...Some analysts have read the leak of hypothetical U.S. military planning on Iran as calculated to spook the Europeans, Russia and China into supporting tougher UN action. Whether or not it has that effect, diplomacy is clearly the only game in town - and both sides are busy trying to shape its outcome to their advantage...
...just want students to make a choice.”The group will mainly seek to show that past outside investigations have exonerated Coke, and that the company is complying with current inquiries. Shepard added that Coke has agreed to an investigation conducted by the United Nation (UN) International Labor Organization (ILO), and said, “If the UN’s ILO is not independent enough, then no one is independent enough.” Gould-Wartofsky welcomed the opposition, viewing it as an opportunity for debate. “I think before, the lack of discussion indicated...