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...decades. It is also establishing an Independent Anti-Corruption Commission, an Ombudsman and an Independent Human Rights Commission. Progress is slow but perceptible. The government has not stood idle on the law-and-order front. It launched a massive army-civilian police action called Operation Clean Heart to curb terrorism and economic crimes. It is reforming the police force and passed the Speedy Trial Act for quick dispensation of justice. Your article has done a major injustice to a country that is forging ahead as a functioning democracy despite huge constraints of poverty, overpopulation and all the other ills that...
Although these statistics might make even a Hoopes prize winner uneasy, just because a student isn’t performing up to par doesn’t mean that he or she is immediately getting kicked to the curb. Midway through the semester, instructors are asked to alert the Registrar’s Office of any difficulties that a student may be having. According to Freshman Dean Wendy Torrance, the “hope is that students will meet with course instructors, advisers, and with us, to discuss what may be contributing to their poor performance.” Similar...
...marks the first major step by a top-tier university to curb grade inflation, and Princeton will begin this fall to phase in the plan over three years...
...roads, and they are hoping to recruit real cops to their cause: a crackdown on "drive-by porn"--that is, folks playing blue movies in their cars. Parents whose kids have been exposed to the stuff by seeing the images as they pass a car are urging lawmakers to curb the road shows. A Tennessee measure banning the display of externally visible, "obscene or patently offensive" video in cars passed the senate last March and is expected to become law on July 1. A councilwoman in Flint, Mich., proposed a similar ordinance last February, but it has been tabled...
Mendelsohn said that departmental budgets across campus have been squeezed to curb spending, limiting growth by keeping yearly expenditure increases below 2 percent...