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...tracking the social progress of migrants' children, and that, social workers say, is a problem when millions of kids are thought to be at high risk for early pregnancy, incest, drug abuse and depression. Manila police, for instance, say that children with parents overseas are more exposed to violent crime, particularly rape and physical assault. "There are no parents watching," says Manila Police Officer Dolores Villegas...
...Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel to be its chief of staff. Emanuel is a win-at-any-cost partisan but not an ideologue; in his earlier White House stint as a top aide to Clinton, he was a key figure in shepherding through the North American Free Trade Agreement, a crime bill and welfare reform - none of them popular with the Democratic Party's liberal base. The appointment of someone who has been a savvy operator at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue also shows that, for all Obama's talk of change, he does not intend to make the mistake...
...boys forage through garbage heaps, get hooked in by child-molesting Fagins and slip into lives of petty or flagrant crime, you'll be reminded of Pixote and City of God and Oliver Twist and a dozen Indian musical melodramas - which are more sanitized by far but display the same obsession for family ties and first love, and are just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True...
...their letter, Smith and 25 other former FBI agents point to the fact that physical evidence connects only one person to the crime scene, a man named Omar Ballard, whose DNA was found in the murdered woman's apartment. Ballard is serving prison time for this and another crime. Ballard's confession is the only one consistent with the physical evidence, wrote the former agents...
Along with the DNA evidence connecting only Ballard to the murder, the former FBI agents believe the autopsy report on the victim and the physical condition of the crime scene are consistent with a "single-offender crime." Lawyers contend that the sailors confessed under high-pressure interrogation tactics that included lies and threats of the death penalty. "In rare cases," wrote the retired agents, powerful interrogation techniques "can produce false confessions." The investigative confirmations required to ensure confessions are reliable were not done in this case, wrote the agents...