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...hasn't shown for any of the many other democratic reforms Turkey needs. The government has shelved plans to lift Article 301, which makes it a crime to denigrate "Turkishness," under which writers and intellectuals like Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk have been tried. Erdogan has made little progress in addressing the grievances of Turkey's Kurdish minority. If he is really out to prove his democratic mettle, these are the kinds of issues he needs to address...
...foreign service, she said. Rice wants to beef up career development programs for mid-level managers. She wants to phase out the foreign service tradition of having a cadre of generalists in favor of being able to deploy diplomats and civilians who have the specialized experience to address the specific needs of a post-conflict country. Rice has also talked about how she is trying to transform how the State Department shares information, so foreign service officers have "quick access to the knowledge and real-time information they need." All of these recommendations speak to the underlying faults that Miranda...
...With the State Department short-staffed and unprepared for operating in dangerous places like Iraq and Afghanistan, Pentagon officials have expressed frustration in recent years that the military has been forced to shoulder most of the load in post-conflict zones. To address this, Rice is proposing the creation of a Civilian Response Corps. Similar to the military reserves, the new program would comprise doctors, lawyers, engineers, agricultural experts, police officers and public administrators, led by a team of diplomats, that could deploy with a military unit with 48 hours notice. Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware and Richard Lugar...
...world of dizzying financial complexity, this explanation fails to address the numerous agents whose alleged irresponsibility and apparent greed set the stage for this fiasco. Mortgage borrowers, mortgage lenders, investment banks, credit rating agencies, and hedge funds all share the blame for this financial crisis...
...rightly should be—it would do better to rephrase its questionnaire. Currently, the screening fails to ask about sexual behaviors such as unprotected sex and heterosexual anal sex, which both are methods of HIV transmission. In order to be safe and properly discriminatory, the FDA should address all forms of high-risk behavior without singling out homosexual men. Concerned citizens should protest the FDA’s current phrasing and demand change. However, boycotting Red Cross blood drives punishes patients in need of blood transfusions instead of targeting FDA officials who have the power to modify restrictions...