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TIME criticized Bush's unilateral foreign policy. But your story demonstrated the utter ineffectiveness of multilateral diplomacy by pointing out that "since joining multilateral talks over Iran and North Korea, the U.S. has failed to persuade Russia and China, who wield veto power in the U.N. Security Council, to agree to specific sanctions against either Tehran or Pyongyang." So far, it would seem, multilateral diplomacy is batting zero...
Since joining multilateral talks over Iran and North Korea, the U.S. has failed to persuade Russia and China, who wield veto power in the U.N. Security Council, to agree to specific sanctions against either Tehran or Pyongyang. The gap between the U.S.'s priorities and the rest of the world's stretches beyond those two challenges. The war on terrorism has provided a neat ideological framework for U.S foreign policy in the Bush years, but it has distracted the attention of the U.S. from developments in other areas--Asia, Russia and its former satellites, and Latin America--where new international...
...armed by politicians, the same people responsible for the continued degradation and consequent state of abject poverty pervading the area. The deprivation in the region is a reflection of Nigeria's ailing socioeconomic realities as well as the greed and ineptitude of its political élite. Politicians in Nigeria wield too much power, often to the detriment of the people and the state. Why is it that the governors of the Niger Delta states, with increased revenue allocation from the central government, have done little for their people? The militia guns may someday be turned against the political élite...
...period when we went from a crude empirical set of notions to a real understanding of life processes, with profound implications for disease.”Long after the Summers-Faculty fight is forgotten, these five advances in the life sciences from the past academic year will continue to wield an impact.A BLOOD TEST ON YOUR BLACKBERRY?Last September, Charles M. Lieber, the Hyman professor of chemistry, put the finishing touches on an invention that could revolutionize the process of detecting and monitoring diseases such as cancer.Lieber explains in an e-mail that his device consists of several hundred silicon...
...Every few years, students here wake up to the fact of their own powerlessness. In 1978, for example, after a year of intense activism on campus, the Student Assembly was formed. Though students realized it had no formal power, they reasoned a representative body for all undergraduates might wield some influence. But the victories of the assembly have been few and far between—it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring picnic. Of late the assembly has grown...