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...technological progress, increased awareness, and historical perspective. Goldstone has served on many war crime commissions such as the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo. He also served for nine years as a justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. After Goldstone’s keynote address, panelists, including various professors who are members of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, spoke on the same topic. One of the challenges that prevails is the language of the convention itself, according to assistant professor of government and Social Studies Jens Meierhenrich. He cited Article 8 of the convention to point out that the agreement...
...students can find out everything they need to know about this year’s frontrunners without ever making human contact. But students relying on the sites to make decisions may find themselves in something of a bind. Both leading candidates boast snazzy sites full of personal biographies and various aspects of their platforms. One learns from www.schwartzbiggers.com that Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10, hailing from Pennsylvania, likes red spice chicken, while Alneada D. Biggers ’10, from Alabama, prefers broccoli chicken and cheese pockets. Who knew!? If you consider the candidates’ dietary habits...
...India's security services are in desperate need of an upgrade in skills and technology. M.K. Dhar, who served for three decades as an IB operative, wrote in his 2005 book Open Secrets: India's Intelligence Unveiled that "an average IB officer does not even know the difference between various explosive devices and triggering mechanisms" and that "an average IB officer is not oriented with the techniques of war pursued by mujahideen and fedayeen fanatics." He asserts that political interference had led to a servile "police culture" in the IB, and even charges that sincere IB efforts to nab Pakistani...
...Following the Mumbai attacks, the government announced that it would create a federal investigative agency to improve coordination among intelligence agencies and between them and the various state police forces. Tougher terror legislation is also being framed to expand the tools available to the security agencies. John says there have been improvements in civilian and military coordination and that an informal system of tagging threats has been introduced since Mumbai. "But these are not institutionalized yet," he says...
...Under Chait’s plan, researchers would spot various small molecules on petri dishes that contain mixtures of bacteria that are either sensitive or resistant to a particular drug. The sensitive and resistant bacteria would be labeled with different colors, such as green...