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...Disarmament and human-rights experts warned that U.S. rejection or disregard of treaties is undermining efforts in the rest of the world to strengthen international laws. The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy cited international agreements on nuclear testing and proliferation, land-mine bans, climate change and women's and children's rights in their report...
...columnists are allowed to have pet peeves, so here's one of mine. I can't abide the assumption that just because a country sits on top of natural resources, it is potentially rich. It is now conventional wisdom that the Arab economies are "failures" because they have wasted their oil wealth. After the recent death of Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan guerrilla leader, we were told that his nation should be one of the richest in Africa--all those diamonds and precious metals under the jungle...
...that silly phobia, than Harvard is the place for you. If you want to learn about French cinema or the Russian avant-garde, attend Taiwanese cultural festivals and watch Filipino dances, then come aboard, Harvard can help. If your idea of diversity is a freshman class, like mine, where roughly five hundred students hailed from either Massachusetts or New York, than this University is as diverse as they come...
...think he's done wonderful things for that parish, and what he did during the years he wasn't a priest is his own personal business," said Mike Donahue, another friend of mine. Donahue, from an old, prominent Lowell family, still lives in the city and manages a local country club. "Why he lied about being gay--he's probably embarrassed about it. Lowell's a blue-collar mill city, and that stuff still doesn't go down well with some people here. As for whether the allegation's true, I'm with Spags. Geoghan had 60 kids going, 'This...
...stop a robber's bullet with your teeth?or so goes an apocryphal tale of a now legendary bus driver. Then get another one the next year, because you never know how much protection you might need. Somchai, a former soldier, says he once stepped on a land mine at the Cambodian border, but the shrapnel never pierced his tattooed legs. Somchai has returned for some more tattooing. His current profession: "None of your business...