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...developing countries on the board are increasingly critical of what they see as efforts to use the NPT to enforce a nuclear-weapons monopoly on the part of the current nuclear-weapons states, rather than the treaty's original intent, which was to facilitate global disarmament. And in the wake of the Iraq WMD debacle, they're less inclined than ever to accept U.S. claims about Iran's real intent...
...STATE OF EMERGENCY, in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, where a decades-long insurgency has cost more than 12,000 lives; in Jakarta. The expiration of the year-old state of emergency comes as the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.) negotiate a peace deal in the wake of the Dec. 26 tsunami, which killed more than 100,000 Acehnese. Although 38,000 government troops will remain on the ground, Bivitri Susanti, executive director of the Centre for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies, called the move "a very significant step for the reconstruction process...
...denial about our health, particularly about obesity. People in the U.S. are ridiculously overweight compared with those in Europe, let alone Asia. The money spent here to treat increased numbers of cases of diabetes and coronary disease alone should tell us that it is not "O.K. to be pudgy." Wake up, Americans! You are fat and paying a dreadful price for failing to eat less and exercise more. Obesity is an epidemic...
...wake of the 1991 Palmares, when the Jury voted three top prizes (the Palme, Best Director and Best Actor) to the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, the Festival imposed a rule against awarding the same film the Palme and Director prizes. This flies in the face of Cannes' deep and long-held belief that the director is the author of the film. In this Church of Auteurism, the best film must be the work of the best director. But Cannes is at least as political as it is canonical. It wants to make almost everybody happy, to distribute its party favors...
...pitched only the fifth. Herrmann was the only hurler not to surrender a run…Farkes extended his hitting streak to 12 games…Walsh confirmed yesterday that Thomas Stack-Babich, a 6’3, 200-lb. freshman outfielder from Scituate, Mass., will transfer from Wake Forest to Harvard prior to his sophomore year. “I think it’s the same kind of story with Mike Morgalis [who transferred from Notre Dame],” Mann said. “He can come from a good baseball school and make a make...