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...stand, then he and others within the University should seek other ways to show that Harvard is serious about standing behind the civil rights of its students. As a first step, Summers and Dean Kagan could invite retired military officials, lawyers, and members of academia to join in a summit discussing the best means to overturn the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy...
...Chinese Vice Foreign Minister and chief negotiator Wu Dawei, Hill went to work. According to a U.S. official, in between the Dynasty-brand wine, mooncakes and calls to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was in New York buttonholing foreign ministers as they attended the U.N. World Summit, Hill nailed down agreements that the others would not help North Korea get its reactor until Pyongyang's nuclear warheads and fissile material were eliminated. Confident that the U.S. line would be backed, Hill lit a cigar and indulged in some moongazing...
...students heard talks every evening, had technical briefings by the U.S. Geological Survey at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, and toured the famous Keck telescopes, which stand on the nearly 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea and are not open to the public. Students carried exercise workbooks during all their outings...
Syrian President Bashar Assad had planned to attend the 2005 World Summit at the U.N. last week as part of a novel policy, in the words of a Syrian diplomat, of "dealing with international affairs and contacting world leaders." But without a word of explanation, Assad nixed his New York City trip. Diplomatic sources tell TIME that he failed in his attempts to arrange tte--ttes with the Presidents of Russia and Turkey. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also pointedly left Assad out of a meeting with European and other Middle Eastern leaders. (The only one willing to meet...
...petty formalities. And that’s why this delay may be for the best. It wouldn’t hurt the U.S. to acknowledge China with some higher-class state treatment; neither would it hurt China to stop caring about face so much. Whether the next summit is rescheduled as a state dinner at the White House or a tête-à-tête at the Crawford ranch, leaders on both sides must commit themselves to an honest conversation about their diplomatic futures. The future stability of the world depends...