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...crisis." He charges that local media are sensationalizing the problem, and says official records indicate that the murder rate is actually declining in the capital. But on the streets of the city, that claim is met mostly with derision. So far, nine businessmen have been shot dead in broad daylight this year for refusing to pay up to extortionists, and many of Dhaka's shopkeepers now no longer rely on the police to protect them. A wholesaler of tomatoes in Kawran Bazaar has pooled his resources with his neighbors to hire 20 armed guards to ensure the extortionists...
...according to Associate Professor of Public Policy David C. King, “what we see in the House bill will not be the final say.” Senators will likely limit the broad powers granted to the defense secretary under the bill, King wrote in an e-mail...
...report penned by Wolcowitz based on the committees’ work is due in May, but don’t expect anything earth-shattering. The committees are set up with broad tasks that seem more suited to re-evaluating the administrative processes of pedagogy, not the fundamental questions of education. While Rosovsky’s committees centered around intellectual inquiries—“Historical Study,” “Literature and Arts” and the other core areas we all know and love—this review is ill-defined and is suited to revising...
...concern was that the report be balanced between two broad views,” he said. “One stresses deep and inevitable causes for current transatlantic tensions, a position generally (but not always) favored by conservatives on the task force, and the other emphasizes specific policies and decisions adopted by U.S. administrations, particularly the current one, a position generally (but not always) favored by liberals and Europeans on the task force...
...terrorist threat in the months before 9/11. I asked a dozen people last week--some intimate with the commission's thinking, some members of the intelligence community, some members of Congress who have investigated 9/11--what they would ask the President if they could. Their questions fell into three broad categories...