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...Last year the government committed $NZ10 million over four years for youth workers and services for high-risk youth. Police set up six-man "youth action teams" who speed to outbreaks of gang violence and arrest troublemakers. The aim is to get the youngsters charged with breaches of the peace with bail conditions that will take them off the streets at night. Says Inspector Jason Hewett, the policing development manager: "The goal is for zero tolerance." He is confident authorities are already having some success. "I'm being careful here-and homicides could happen in 30 minutes-but there have...
Next week, however, the European Commission hopes to begin draining the lake by overhauling the subsidies and quotas that have spurred overproduction, widely recognized as untenable for Europe's winemakers and its taxpayers. The Commission proposals, due to be released on Wednesday, aim to transform the way vines are planted and how wine is marketed, recognizing that too much of the E.U.'s $1.8 billion annual wine budget goes to compensate farmers for producing wine no one wants to drink. That wine is either destroyed, or - at additional cost - transformed into industrial alcohol...
...intelligence, in an elite commando unit, or as a pilot. For these people, the unit they want becomes their Harvard. They train for it physically and mentally. And, like Harvard, many who try to reach these units are not accepted. For others, attending college first is the aim. But even then, the process is not simply attending, learning, and then deciding on a career. Instead, the Israeli higher-education system forces its students to choose a specialty before enrolling. And most who go straight to college do so through a program that ensures extended military service after graduation; quite...
...difficult for me to fathom what it must have been like to go to high school where the collective aim, and my individual goal, was not to make it to the best possible college, and I’d imagine the same is true for most of us at Harvard...
Another potential obstacle lies among the Arabs: disagreement over how to handle Hamas. That quabbling that could eventually distract the parties from their main aim of getting Israeli-Palestinian talks back on track. Saudi Arabia, which has no diplomatic relations with Israel and did not attend the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting, seeks to restore Palestinian unity along the lines of the Saudi-mediated Mecca Agreement that led to a power-sharing government comprised of Hamas and Abbas' Fatah party. Jordan's King Abdullah, however, is adamant that Hamas be excluded to give Abbas more freedom of action - and also...