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...This is the question that has health officials from Geneva to Washington puzzled. In Mexico, swine flu has caused severe respiratory disease in a number of patients - and even more worryingly, has killed the sort of young and healthy people who can normally shrug off the flu. (Fueling such concerns is the fact that similar age groups died in unusually high numbers during the 1918 pandemic.) Yet the cases in the U.S. have all been mild and likely wouldn't have even garnered much attention if doctors hadn't begun actively looking for swine flu in recent days. "What...
...This time, though, the Western world took a bait it had set for itself. Ahmadinejad’s assertions that Israel is a “cruel and repressive racist regime” were made at a United Nations conference on racism in Geneva that the United States, along with the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Italy, had already decided to boycott over concerns that Ahmadinejad would abuse it in precisely this manner. That political leaders and journalists are now focusing nonstop on the inflammatory remarks indicates that Western countries’ decision not to attend...
...Israel walked out on the first conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, because certain parts of its final resolution explicitly alluded to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as being driven by racism. Though these references were actually removed from later drafts of the Geneva declaration, the U.S. cited concerns over Ahmadinejad as reason enough to stay away from the conference...
...women’s 800-meter—a race in which all five Harvard competitors finished in the top 16—and sophomore Cara Sprague earned third in the 3000-meter steeple chase.The Crimson’s sprinters were no less impressive, as seniors Dara Wilson and Geneva Trotter went one-two in the 100 hurdles.With third place finishes from senior Evan Favermann in the javelin and freshman Lauren Barber in the shotput, as well as a second place effort from high jumper Dina Emde, Harvard tallied a total of 112 points en route to a fourth-place...
...Obama’s Nowruz message, asked, “I would like to say that I do not know who makes decisions for America, the president, the Congress, behind-the-scene elements?”, Washington may be understandably confused after Ahmadinejad’s mixed message in Geneva. However, a more crucial question to ask is how relevant Ahmadinejad’s anti-Zionist comments are to a U.S.-Iran negotiation. For the record, Ahmadinejad’s voice, as presented in the statement, only repeats Durban’s 2001 acrimony over Zionism and racism?...