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Louise Oliver never did anything to injure George W. Bush, yet in 2003 he named her ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. For that presidential cruelty we, although not she, should be thankful.
Not even the delights of Paris can compensate for the tiresome work of tempering the excesses to which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is prone. Just now UNESCO is reverting to the sort of mischief tinged with anti- Americanism that caused President Reagan to withdraw the United States from the organization in 1984. Fortunately, Oliver is alert to the defects of the proposed Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, negotiation of which culminates in the next few days.See the full content of this document
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A Soldier in the Culture Wars
It is not a good idea badly executed; it is a pernicious idea executed about as you would expect by people capable of conceiving it. And capable of using words like "interculturality," and of creat...
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