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...with your child. See where he or she feels comfortable. Tour the classrooms during school hours, if possible. Many parents, even those seeking the full cultural immersion experience for their children, will end up focusing on schools that cater to international students. Short-term postings in London, Paris or Geneva often call for international schools because it means the kids won't have to make a transition into an entirely new system. With the high cost of private education and many companies cutting down on expat benefits, more parents are also looking at less costly options like state- or church...
...past, the SVP is making immigration (legal and otherwise) a hot-button issue. But this time around the party is breaking out of its traditional elderly, agrarian base to attract younger and more liberal voters - like Pierre-Alain Favre, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Geneva who has always voted for more moderate parties. "Every night I see African drug dealers on the streets and I'm getting sick of it," he says. "I want these people out, so this year I'm voting for the SVP." If the party wins big on Sunday - it currently leads the polls...
...Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and receiving a degree in economics. He returned to the U.S. in 1971 and earned an M.S. in management at M.I.T. His career at the U.N. began humbly in 1962 as an administrative and budget officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva. By 1993 he had worked his way through several finance and management positions to a coveted slot, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In that office he oversaw 80,000 troops in 17 military operations ... 'The best way to use force is to show force in order...
...Iraq on its own terms - if capable nations had been willing to send troops and treasure to back up the U.S.-run occupation authority in Baghdad, the Bush administration would not have been forced to go back to the UN in the first place. Last weekend's talks in Geneva between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the foreign ministers of the other veto-wielding Security Council members - Britain, France, Russia and China - highlighted both the potential for a new deal on Iraq, but also the extent of compromise that may be required from Washington in order to get there...
...crucial sticking point in the negotiations at Geneva - and in those scheduled for the weeks ahead - is the question of who remains legally in charge in Baghdad between now and the establishment of a sovereign Iraqi government. In the U.S. view of things, that would be Ambassador Paul Bremer, with the UN playing the not entirely clearly defined support role previously occupied by late Sergio Vieira De Mello, the accomplished diplomat killed in last month's bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad. Absolutely not, say the French, Russians and Chinese. The only basis to confer UN legitimacy on the military...