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...This sudden vulnerability of emerging markets will be a key issue at the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia, which begins on Oct. 30 in Istanbul. While Turkey has reason to blame its worsening economic outlook on the rest of the world, some of its woes are self-inflicted. The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) set about transforming the economy after its election in 2002. Spurred on by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which provided financial support during the 2001 crisis, the government pushed through strict budgets, monetary discipline...
...After waking up bright and early (read: noon) on the Fifth, I set out with my roommate Jon, his friend Tim, and one of my fellow interns, Kevin, to explore Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood famous for spawning the hippie movement of the 1960s. We made our way down the central vein of the neighborhood, which brought us to the entrance of Golden Gate Park, an urban green space of more than 1000 acres, making it larger than Frederick Olmsted’s creation in New York City. Having heard that there were live buffalo in the park...
...Zone has been closed down,” Reeves said, referring to an area of Boston that in the 1960s and ’70s was known for being dangerous and full of adult entertainment venues. “People need somewhere else to go, and that cannot be Central Square.” Reeves described seeing unfamiliar people pushing shopping carts full of blankets around Central Square recently and congregating around city benches for hours at a time. He also recounted reports of illegal behavior, specifically from store owners who have told him there is prostitution in the area...
...International Criminal Court, on May 21. “It’s an exciting award because it gives recognition to the tremendous advancements in international criminal justice over the past 14 years,” Goldstone said in an interview yesterday. According to Fanton, Goldstone has been central to those advances. Fanton said that because of the successes of the Rwanda and Yugoslavia tribunals, “the world community became comfortable with the Rome Statute”—the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty. Now retired from the international justice system, Goldstone...
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...