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...with counterparts from fields like nursing, social work and public health. Rock developed the idea with FIU's Dr. Pedro Greer - whose pioneering efforts to deliver medical care in poor areas won him the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year - after his work in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina drove home the need for "embedding health care more deeply in communities." Says Miami Gardens Mayor Shirley Gibson: "I am very hopeful that this will change not only the dynamics of accessibility, but nurture physicians who understand how these communities' socioeconomic cultures affect patient behavior...
...South Africa. He is charged with the murder of his former mining boss and friend Brett Kebble, who was a major donor to the ANC's Youth League, an organization that both Selebi and Nelson Mandela once led. Agliotti denies killing Kebble, who was shot dead as he drove near his house in Johannesburg in 2006, but has admitted taking part in what he described as an "assisted suicide." Agliotti has said that Kebble, who had severe money troubles, had wanted to die and that he had merely helped with arrangements. The case goes to trial next year...
...attack on the WFP office, the attackers managed to confuse guards by disguising themselves as soldiers. Arriving in a small white van, they drove up to the first checkpoint and opened fire, killing at least one guard and others present. They then spread themselves around the compound, hurling grenades and exchanging fire with military guards. They proceeded to a second checkpoint, where a fierce firefight broke out for an estimated 45 minutes, military officials said. Four of the attackers were killed but not before they had killed an army brigadier and a lieutenant colonel...
...longing for a President who is more bully, less pulpit. The President who leased his immense inaugural good will to the hungry appropriators writing the stimulus bill, who has not stopped negotiating health-care reform except to say what is nonnegotiable, whose solicitude for the wheelers and dealers who drove the financial system into a ditch leaves the rest of us wondering who has our back, has always shown great promise, said the right things, affirmed every time he opens his mouth that he understands the fears we face and the hopes we hold. But he presides over a capital...
...amid the color and commotion, just how sincere is the Conservative transformation? Parris believes it's real but speaks of a "substantial unreconstructed rump" of the party whose skepticism about the European Union drove the alliance with the antifederalist Polish party and who are "only very grumblingly committed to the diversity agenda." How Cameron balances the demands of that rump against the drive of the modernizers will determine just how nice a party the Tories...