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...told "no photos, no interviews" by a fourth officer. The relief effort isn?t working-the UN and other agencies have complained that Myanmar is dragging its feet on the issuing of visas for its personnel they say are badly needed to cope with the crisis-but the apparatus of state control, which watches Burmese and foreigners alike, is apparently doing just fine...
...Republicans in fundraising for the first time in recent history and giving candidates sophisticated tools with which to build grassroots organizations. While Republicans have tried to copy the online organizing model, they haven’t been nearly as successful. In fact, Obama has used his Web-driven fundraising apparatus to bring in more campaign funds than all of the candidates for the Republican nomination combined...
...know you can't let him go home," was how the case manager broke my bubble. "His apartment was filthy, there's no one looking in on him. What's going to happen if he falls again? We're responsible, you know. There's an apparatus in place for this kind of case, and we need to get him out of here before it starts costing the hospital. We can't get stuck with...
...support of the rank and file of the army and the police." The armed forces have become Mugabe's main support as his popularity plummeted amid the the country's economy disintegration. South Africa's Mail & Guardian is reporting negotiations between the opposition and Zimbabwe's military and security apparatus...
...While Harvard has a functioning and fairly well-regarded system of pedagogical feedback—the Q guide, formerly published by the Committee on Undergraduate Evaluation (CUE) and now by a combination of the CUE and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)— the current apparatus is insufficient for giving feedback to professors and teaching fellows during the actual course of the semester. The CUE is now convening to consider a more streamlined and enforcible system for both midterm grading and evaluation. Professors and teaching fellows will be required to give students an indication of their...