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...conference brought together prominent figures from all over the world to speak about various aspects of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Six panels addressed a range of topics from AIDS and international security to women’s empowerment vis-à-vis the AIDS crisis...
...Editors: Your article stressed "disarray in diplomacy" vis--vis Egypt and Italy [TERRORISM, Oct. 28]. President Reagan is the elected head not of those two nations but of the U.S. His leadership correctly reflected his constitutional obligation to defend American lives at home and abroad. Marvin Alisky Tempe, Ariz...
...acknowledges a range of concerns, including worries that allocations are too generous, but remains undeterred. "The important thing is to get the scheme up and running," says Peter Vis, an E.C. supervisor of the ETS. "Then we can make improvements." Traders, too, are undeterred. Out on the trading floors, says CO2e's Steen, new market entrants are picking their moments, "and people respond well to having the opportunity to make money." The environment, meanwhile, doesn't care about the price...
...exceptions from legal protections claimed by the U.S. vis-à-vis its terror suspects are, by any measure, much more substantial than those taken by the British (the ones recently found to be untenable and unlawful). Although the U.K. “opted out” of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which enshrines the right to liberty) in passing the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, the U.S. has denied terror detainees, most notably at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, both rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the protections...
...Bradley S. Epps, who is professor of Romance languages and literatures and of the study of women, gender and sexuality, said Summers “is in an asymmetrical position vis-a-vis faculty, students and staff...[H]e can draw lines and make grand statements as to the inviolability of the lines that he draws in a way that is untenable for others...