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After the release of the data last week, administrators said the issues of social life and quality of instruction raised in the survey have guided their priorities in recent years, pointing to the ongoing curricular review and new initiatives to bolster campus activities...
...Units from the conquering Tutsi rebel army have been accused of brutal revenge killings. The government worries that trying alleged rpf crimes alongside those of people like Ntirushwamaboko will bolster claims that the Tutsi, too, committed genocide. That troubles some outside observers. "If you give justice only to one group of people, I'm not sure that will have a reconciliatory effect," says Jean-Charles Paras, head of the Rwandan mission for Penal Reform International. "Quite the contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their...
...contesting parliamentary elections - Hizballah is currently the single largest party in Lebanon's patchwork parliament. Its share of parliamentary seats may even grow if the Syrians depart, since Hizballah advocates have long believed the Syrians actually cheated Nasrallah's movement out of a few seats in order to bolster the parliamentary presence of its own Shiite favorite, the Amal movement of Nabi Berri, the speaker of parliament...
...altruism or a concern for fairness: from the very beginning, self-interested partisans have manufactured districts with bizarre shapes, splitting apart logical geographical communities in an effort to maximize a given party’s political advantage. “Gerrymandered” districts additionally serve to bolster the power of incumbents. When coupled with disparities in campaign contributions, cleverly crafted districts make the possibility of an upset by challengers (often consisting of women and minorities) incredibly difficult. The success of these plans is evident in the fact that incumbents are routinely re-elected at extraordinary rates. In last November?...
...studio is always in the business of big," says Newmarket boss Bob Berney. "But Paramount can use all the divisions it owns to bolster one another." That's Paramount's other secret ingredient: cross-marketing. The networks feed ideas to the studio, which produces the movies, which are promoted on the networks. That puts the energy in synergy. "This is not to say that under my management Paramount is going to become the MTV Films studio," says Freston. "But they will play a big cornerstone in what Paramount is going...