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...current administration of President Alvaro Colom has focused its first year on social programs aimed at reducing poverty, while security issues have taken a back seat. However, analysts say Colom has taken steps in recent months to clean up and strengthen security forces and the justice system. Rember Larios, adjunct director of the national civil police, says the force was committed to facing the drug threat. "Our hand will not tremble," says Larios, noting that police were carrying out searches for traffickers and evidence in provinces with heavy narco presence. McFarland says the Guatemalan government's expanded budget for security...
...Kennedy School also plans to reduce the number of visitors and adjunct lecturers and ask some faculty members to postpone paid leaves they had scheduled for next year as part of its attempts to reduce faculty spending...
...grateful, having an independent organization that’s able to bargain about people’s conditions is really important to diversity and academic freedom,” Paulson said. She said students should be wary of the university pushing teaching duties on graduate students or adjunct professors without providing job security...
...interested in branching out to an Episcopal church, Diana Butler Bass, author of five books on American Protestantism and an adjunct professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, invites you to try hers. "Epiphany is a downtown Episcopal church with a congregation that is fifty-fifty white and black," she says, "and it has a full spectrum of social class diversity as well as a long history in Washington." Indeed, several members of Lincoln's Cabinet belonged to Epiphany, and it was also very active in supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960s. "It would be an interesting choice that appears...
Smith: But we have to draw the line between the issues ... and television and the fact that these people come into our homes now 24/7. They become adjunct members of the family. One reason why I think we have lots of one-term Presidents is because they wear out their welcome like any sitcom character ... The single greatest problem confronting the presidency is overexposure...