Miscellaneous

There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country read more

There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.

There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,

There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,

You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find read more

You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find it's fairly significant.

People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across.

People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across.

It is essential for the public to know that aid is being handled in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner.

It is essential for the public to know that aid is being handled in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner.

Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy.

Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy.

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only read more

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by read more

Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by holding elections. Silencing the leadership, the king hopes, will silence the people. Such actions belie his stated belief in democratic principles and the rule of law.

We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a read more

We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area everyone needs to be prepared.

It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense read more

It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .