Word: developments
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...most important part of citizenship. I have been amazed that the system is so disorganized - flawed voter lists, machines that have no verifiable paper trail, and different election rules in different states. Compared with many other countries, the U.S. is still in the Stone Age. We need to develop national election standards. Our votes can push national and local issues in widely disparate directions. But if you did not vote, you have no right to complain. Peter Jenkins Eagle River, Alaska Your article invited the thought that no matter who won the election, half the country would need a morning...
...dispute comes as Harvard continues to develop its plans for expanding the campus into Allston...
Just as Sinopec fails to consider genocide sufficient reason to cease operations in Sudan, the company recently cemented a cozy oil and natural gas deal with Iran, a country whose determination to develop a nuclear weapons program threatens regional security—to say nothing of its sponsorship of terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al Qaeda. The deal offers China access to Iran’s Yadavaran oilfield and a 30 year supply of liquefied natural...
...Iran agreement would have to win the backing of the U.S., but last week, U.S. officials were sounding as skeptical as ever. Speaking in Vienna, Stephen G. Rademaker, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for arms control, argued that Iran "is seriously embarked on an effort to develop nuclear weapons" and compared the country to North Korea. While a deal would avert a showdown between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Association at its meeting in Vienna later this month, Iran would still not have agreed to suspend enrichment indefinitely, which the U.S. insists it must do to avoid...
...question the limits of free speech, others to ask whether the country's age-old reputation for tolerance is a thing of the past, and still others to wonder whether their grand experiment in integration has ignited an all-out clash of civilizations. "We have allowed a climate to develop in which everything is tolerated," says Geert Wilders, a right-wing member of parliament who has received death threats from radical Muslims. "There is way too much political correctness in the Netherlands - and now we're paying...