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...India A MONUMENTAL EFFORT Voting in the world's largest democracy started on April 16, despite violent Maoist attacks intended to disrupt the election that left at least 17 dead. Staggered balloting for the nation's 543 parliamentary seats continues until May 13; counting will begin on May 16. Neither of India's two major parties is expected to win enough seats to declare an overall victory, so a new coalition government--including some of the country's smaller parties--could be formed after the election...
...rida plan provides hardware like helicopters and intelligence technology. But only a third of the cash is directed at the more important software of police reform. It is police officers, not soldiers, who staff the kind of investigative bodies that bring down organized crime. Says Payan: "This effort is doomed to fail if it's not accompanied by effective [Mexican] cops, and Washington isn't treating that as a large enough piece of the puzzle yet." Reyes agrees. "The U.S. needs to assure that police forces along the border are sufficiently robust," he says, "precisely so they...
American officials say privately they're waiting to see whether reform programs like that of Reyes are serious and whether other Mexican mayors and governors will finally join the effort. Juárez's mayor, who is shadowed by six assault-rifle-toting bodyguards, has ousted half his old police force through drug tests, polygraphs and other "confidence exams." Under his pact with Calderón, Reyes now has to recruit more than 2,000 new cops, who, he says, will be among Mexico's best paid and educated. (Aside from a starting annual salary of $9,000 - twice the usual...
...When Petraeus took the stage, he responded to questions from Gergen and used Powerpoint slides to demonstrate various trends in the war effort...
...James H. Billington proposed the establishment of an online forum that would allow libraries and museums across the globe to share valuable cultural and educational data with anyone who had access to the Internet. On April 21, UNESCO and the Library of Congress officially unveiled its $60 million joint effort to do just that. With funding from sources including King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia and the Carnegie Corporation in New York, more than two dozen institutions contributed content that covers nearly 200 countries. The result is the World Digital Library: a compendium of some 1,200 high-resolution digitized...