Cynical Nation

As a CN reader points out,

That whole genocide in Africa thing -- heck, that could happen to anybody. Nuclear proliferation, the spread of Islamic radicalism -- he's only one guy! What do you expect from him?

But we're gonna draw the line when it comes to outsourcing!

UN staff vote no confidence in Annan management

The U.N. Staff Union voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to express no confidence in U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his top managers after Annan announced plans to overhaul the U.N. bureaucracy"
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"Annan two days earlier had introduced a 33-page report on U.N. management reform that proposed outsourcing some U.N. work or moving staff out of the United States for some translation services, document production, printing and publishing and information technology."