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The solution he proposes shows how much quotas could change Brazilians' sense of who they are: in doubtful cases a commission would verify students' racial identity, overthrowing the idea that a person's race is what he says it is.
ECONOMIST: Race in Brazil
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In a careful study, Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, no friend of Israel, argued that even in the doubtful assumption that such a nuclear exchange could be contained within the region, the resulting horrors would include the deaths of tens of millions and the obliteration of whole societies.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Norman Podhoretz receives the Center's Mightier Pen Award
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The issue isn't whether the United States will be able to win a popularity contest in the region (this is doubtful even in the best of times), but rather, that alienating large swaths of the local population makes it much more difficult to defeat terrorism.
CNN: Is America the moral leader in the world?