It’s Elisabeth Wilhelm, the Editor-in-Chief for the CIMUN 2006 newspaper!
Once again, I’m heading up the Press Team for the Catalonia Model United Nations conference in Barcelona, Spain, from May 2nd to the 5th, 2007. I’m looking for Reporters, Photographers, an Artist, and an Assistant Layout Editor for the daily newspaper.
The day in the life of [...]
So last summer, I was stopping over for 6 hours or so in London and that gave me a chance to surprise my cousin Ray who attends Kings College London. Well, to make a long story short, I woke him up at 3:00pm and we went for a post-hangover lunch near his house in Central [...]
Reinado supporters threaten Gusmao family
From the Australian Associated Press (AAP)
March 06, 2007
Linked from the Australian: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21335416-23109,00.html
SUPPORTERS of East Timor’s rebel leader Alfredo Reinado (pictured here) have threatened to murder President Xanana Gusmao’s family as punishment for asking Australian troops to hunt down the renegade major.
Australia today told its citizens to get out of East Timor [...]
Our Historical Tasks at the Primary Stage of Socialism and
Several Issues Concerning China’s Foreign Policy
Signed article printed in the People’s Daily on 27 Feb 2007 by Premier Wen Jiabao 温家宝
Speech transcript available in English and Chinese at: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/chn/zxxx/t300993.htm
I. Our Historical Tasks at the Primary Stage of Socialism
A keen appreciation of China’s national conditions and its [...]
This reminds me of what happens at “consensus building” Model United Nations conferences… a few countries run away and write a resolution - mind you, stealing the ideas of three other resolutions - and then bringing it in “consolidated” with their names at the top.
However, there’s always the small countries trying to fight back! In [...]
Whither Political Islam?
By Mahmood Mamdani
Book Review from Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005
Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbet Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University. He recently wrote Good Muslim Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Pantheon Books/ Random House, 2004) and When Victimus Become [...]
The army may have delivered on its mandate of ensuring the return of an environment more conducive to law and order since more than a decade, in Kashmir. But the recent spate of suicides and fratricides within are showing that the army is under stress, a slide that the political side can and must prevent, [...]