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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 18

    RIP Kofi Annan: like the UN, flawed but noble. For all its follies, the UN installed a norm against conquest + peacekeeping forces (effective overall, though not always); set global goals for human well-being & measured progress toward meeting them.https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2018/08/18/former-secretary-general-kofi-annan-dies-age/YYkQBYiU0MWs5v8yx1c0hK/story.html?event=event25 …

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      1. Soren‏ @soreneh Aug 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Calm, noble and reasonable. That’s how I’ll remember him. He’ll be missed. RIP

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      1. AK‏ @Ziggurat001 Aug 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Seems you mostly had a problem with Kofi Annan simply because he was AGAINST Israel’s genocidal treatment of Palestinians and the illegal war against the war on the people of Iraq - both of which you were staunch a supporter of.

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      1. Freddy A. Bracke‏ @brackefr Aug 19
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        @mboudry @BostonGlobe Rwanda, 1994.

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      1. Earl Mountbatten of Burma‏ @ForeverGrumps Aug 18
        Replying to @sapinker @aliamjadrizvi

        UN is a money grabbing scheme. Useless self indulging bureaucrats who care more about the luxuries of life such as 1st class travel than their supposed mission.

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      1. Demétre‏ @Manolakos28 Aug 18
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        Tell that to the Cypriots

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      1. Slacker Life‏ @InAquaSanitas_ Aug 18
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        True. But the UN’s sexual assault epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is horrible.

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      1. Varga‏ @TravisVarga Aug 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Lol. The UN is flawed but noble? The UN has given the monsters a status of legitimacy they could have never achieved on their own.

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      1. Chandrima Ghosh‏ @Chandri82125457 Aug 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Rest in peace...

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      1. Marek Bogacki‏ @colourperfectme Aug 18
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        Marek Bogacki Retweeted Isabel Robeson.

        Flawed & Noble? Methinks, something doesn't add up.https://twitter.com/robeson_isabel/status/1030748898414002176 …

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        Isabel Robeson. @robeson_isabel
        The former UN Secretary General #KofiAnnan has died in Switzerland at the age of 80. Mention of him always bring the Rwandan Genocide to mind... pic.twitter.com/fi2rMFFTKU
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      1. Bob F‏ @Bob12958595 Aug 18
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        The UN isn't flawed. It's broken.

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      2. CJ‏ @BoxofBeetles Aug 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Humans are no more important than a goldfish. Why doesn’t the UN take ACTION against ALL suffering and pain? They do not. No institution or framework does.

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      3. David Owen‏ @davidowen_sd Aug 18
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        pic.twitter.com/joN3vI53al

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