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...Unfortunately, the case for the U.N. is relentlessly pragmatic. The threshold argument is as compelling as tapioca: it exists. You can't just quit. Everyone belongs, which was not true of the League of Nations. It is where you go to make a formal argument to the world - as Adlai Stevenson did during the Cuban missile crisis, and as Colin Powell tried to do last month. It's nice to have a place like that; on rare occasions, the unofficial discussions among countries can yield some benign results. And on the rarest occasions - the first Gulf War; Afghanistan - there...
...changed its six-week summer MITES program to admit both minority and non-minority high school seniors after the Center for Equal Opportunity filed a formal complaint with the Office for Civil Rights...
Blum said that if the University does begin admitting students to the program on the basis of financial need and merit instead of race, the American Civil Rights Institute will file a formal complaint with the Office for Civil Rights on the grounds that the program violates Title VI of the Civil Rights...
...body's response to the presence of the nut or its oil. By Kate Noble New Court in the Hague THE NETHERLANDS Despite opposition from the U.S., China and India, the International Criminal Court - the world's first permanent court for the prosecution of human-rights abuses - was formally inaugurated in the Hague. With a mandate to try individuals accused of large-scale crimes against civilians, its first task is to appoint a prosecutor - a politically sensitive decision, since it is the prosecutor who will decide which cases the court pursues. Still Divided CYPRUS Talks aimed at reunifying the divided...
...this advantage. The ultimate social lubricant is no longer confined to the cool kids with fake ID’s. At Cambridge, everyone gets pissed in a fairly egalitarian fashion. And the university provides the booze. Three nights a week, students can sign up for “formal hall,” which is a three-course dinner in the college dining hall where the university provides every student with their own bottle of wine. You get to wear the cool gowns (like in the Harry Potter movies) and play drinking games in the dining hall—which...