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...leading up to the Iraq war deserves special mention. The U.N.'s search for weapons of mass destruction was rigorous and accurate: there were no weapons to be found. Annan quietly understood that an American invasion would be a disaster. He suffered physically and mentally over his failure to prevent the war. After the invasion, he experienced a mild nervous collapse. For a time, he actually lost his voice. For his pains, he was subjected to a chorus of know-nothing blatherings by U.S. critics who blamed him?inaccurately?for the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal and ridiculed...
...Clinton Administration - had been part of the U.S. team negotiating with Pyongyang in the late 1990s. China, after all, had consistently said that the only way to deal with Pyongyang was to engage the regime and provide it with incentives such as food aid and other economic goodies to prevent it from taking such provocative steps as testing a nuclear device. "Then, Kim Jung-il pulled the rug out from under [China's President] Hu Jintao," Lieberthal says...
...mentoring. Jones—after whom Harvard’s first-ever endowed African American music professorship is named—has worked with HSPH for many years, Moses said. He has participated in a program known as the “Squash It!” Campaign to Prevent Youth Violence, which teaches young adults about positive alternatives to violence, according to its Web site. Jones began his social outreach career by joining Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Operation Breadbasket in the 1960s, according to the Web site of the Academy of Achievement in Washington...
...news, another applicant, Gideon W. Wald ’10, put out a fraud alert on his credit history and said he plans to take more steps during the winter break. “There’s not much you can do but to take steps to prevent [fraud],” Wald said. According to the e-mail, the hacker exploited a software flaw and fraudulently accessed the database between October 2005 and last month. When UCLA discovered this activity on Nov. 21, the school responded by blocking all access to Social Security numbers, beginning an emergency investigation...
...Arab state, with Jerusalem to be kept under international control. The Arabs of Palestine and its neighboring states rejected the plan, focusing on its implications for their own people rather than on the horrors visited on the Jews by Europeans, and they went to war to prevent it taking root...