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Afghan police have long been perceived to be ineffectual and corrupt, but over the past few years intensive police training programs have started to bear fruit. Slowly the force is gaining respect among Afghans. A planned ceremony marking the handover of the program from the Germans to an international training force was to take place later today. With Afghan police increasingly becoming the target of insurgent attacks, this morning's blast highlights just how difficult rebuilding this country?s fractured government institutions will...
...admire Mariane's courage, the patient tenacity of the "The Captain" (Irrfan Khan) the lead Pakistani investigator, the sweetness of Dan Futterman's portrayal of Danny Pearl. But what we have, in essence, is a kind of police procedural in which the procedures do not bear fruit...
...plane sits on the tarmac, aren't on board with the Passenger's Bill of Rights. "We feel the Passenger's Bill of Rights would create this expectation by passengers that management and airlines couldn't possibly meet, and it would then be the flight attendants that have to bear the brunt of passenger's frustrations," says Corey Caldwell, spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), the world's largest union of flight attendants...
...will hopefully have a lesser sense of self-importance and a clearer sense of educational priorities.We also hope that, despite the vague legislation, Faculty members themselves embrace its passing as an opportunity to create new and exciting courses, and to become more closely involved in undergraduate instruction. Students themselves bear the responsibility to approach their education as an opportunity for change and development, rather than a hoop-jumping exercise.Finally, we hope that, in looking forward, the SCGE does not ignore current students. Specifically, we hope that while the new curriculum is being developed the Core is cracked open to include...
...model for us. Our faculty’s expertise ranges from molecular genetics to mathematical modeling, from measuring environmental exposures to child development, from health and third world economic development to U.S. health care reform. That this remarkable diversity of backgrounds and expertise has been brought to bear on multidisciplinary approaches to complex problems relating to health within a single faculty is what I believe makes HSPH such a special and rewarding place for its faculty and students...