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The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law. ”
Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains. ”
The young, the old, women, the disabled, the sick and the wounded are entitled to protection under international law. Too often, the ICRC's calls for those laws to be respected are ignored. ”
What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL. ”
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. ”
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe. ”
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ”
The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right. ”
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity. ”
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher. ”