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...complete the task at hand, but its breadth verges on vagueness, and in a committee setting, such agendas often lead to nothing more than unsubstantial and unhelpful recommendations. Rather than fall victim to such ambiguity, the HUPD review committee’s broad agenda must clarify, not muddle, the central questions to which the Harvard community urgently needs answers: Does HUPD practice racial profiling? Does it do enough to prepare its officers to handle racially complex situations with sensitivity and propriety? And if HUPD is deficient in these areas, what might be real and meaningful solutions to these problems?Studying...
...Delhi blasts once again raise questions over India's ability to prevent terror attacks. There have been 13 major incidents in the past five years, and each time the same issues have been raised - lack of coordination between state and central security and investigation agencies, and intelligence and police forces being inadequately staffed, equipped and trained. Yet, as the regularity of the attacks shows, little has changed to deter terror organizations from striking at will...
...latest in a string of audacious terrorist attacks, India's capital was thrown into chaos on Saturday evening as five serial blasts left at least 18 people dead and 100 injured. The central business district of Connaught Place and busy markets in Karol Bagh and Greater Kailash-I were targeted between 6 and 7 p.m. and three more bombs were defused in Connaught Place. As of Saturday evening, one arrest had been reported...
...community organizer on Chicago's South Side and McCain as a naval officer who spent five years as a prisoner of war - and, despite different approaches, both have put forth plans to spur Americans to heed similar calls. McCain's plan includes streamlining federal volunteer programs via a central office in the White House, providing more support for the federal work-study program and allocating federal matching funds for private-sector job-training programs. Obama's proposals include tuition reimbursement for teachers in underserved communities and the creation of an Energy Corps to help develop renewable-energy technologies...
...also the work to be done on the ground. Georges Kouakou, 50, remembers the Western missionaries when he was growing up poor in his native Ivory Coast. Having emigrated to France, Kouakou, a computer engineer and father of three, regularly attends mass at Notre Dame des Victoires church in central Paris. The pastor to the mostly native French parishioners there happens to be from the Congo. "There's been an evolution," Kouakou says. "Europeans went to evangelize Africans; today it's the reverse, and Africans are now evangelizing. These are the seeds that God planted...