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...Sweatt v. Painter,” he said with a surprising oratorical grace that seemed to arise from nowhere. “From an objective standpoint, parity between educational institutions was not manifested in either situation presented in the readings.” He was well versed in the basic words and phrases of this language of Veritas, painstakingly pronouncing his desire to be quite frank, take issue, and look at situations from an objective standpoint. I could see that he had mastered the manifold pretentious tones of the tongue, so difficult for non-native speakers. I could suddenly feel...
With the financial crisis forcing global leaders to rethink the basic framework of the world's financial system, it's probably not the best of times for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be mired in internal scandal. Yet even as French President Nicolas Sarkozy got the backing of U.S. President George W. Bush Saturday to organize a summit to reform the international financial rules that the IMF oversees, the world discovered that the organization's French managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being investigated for possible abuses of power. The findings of that inquiry - expected later this week - will...
Good policing is one of the fundamentals of successful counterinsurgency. Militaries can fight battles, but a daily police presence counters an insurgency at its most basic level. Police know the community they work in, and are much more likely to pick up on suspicious activity. "Once you stabilize an area the problem doesn't come from conventional forces," says Mark Laity, NATO's former spokesman in Kabul. "It comes from that chap, who you have not seen before, who is behaving a little bit oddly. The people around him know there is something wrong, but as a foreigner...
Police are also the most visible extension of a central government. They are expected to provide basic security, not just from militants, but from criminals. A long history of corruption has reduced the image of Afghanistan's police to little more than uniformed thieves, which in turn fosters a general distrust in government and a powerful propaganda tool for militants...
...hard to find. And why the U.S. military is hoping to replicate his achievements in a new mentoring program dubbed Focused District Development. In FDD, every officer in a single district is sent to one of four regional training centers where they are taught tactics, maneuvers, first aid and basic policing skills. They also learn about human rights and rule of law. One patrolman confided to his trainer that he never knew beating his wife was illegal...