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...States, says the overall membership in the UPA has grown between 15 and 20 percent in the past five years. As the game rises in popularity, college teams are becoming increasingly competitive. According to John, the “Spirit of the Game” is the most attractive element of the sport and has contributed to its rising popularity.The “Spirit of the Game” is a unique concept in Ultimate Frisbee by which the players themselves are responsible for enforcing the rules of the game. There are no referees. According to the UPA web site...
...starkest element in this heartbreaking story about Iraqi girls being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery was the observation by a Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq that sex trafficking was virtually nonexistent under Saddam. So was the violent persecution of Iraqi Christians, and so were terrorist attacks. Was regime change really necessary? Robert P. Waxman Cairo, New York...
...also faces a challenge in rebuilding a police force whose own director admits that more than half its officers are corrupt. The United States, which helped in the creation and training of the force, has limited the distribution of weapons to police officers because of the criminal element in their ranks...
...N.O.P.D. after Chief Eddie Compass resigned in September, and he may be replaced, depending on the outcome of the mayoral election on May 20. So far, he has created a criminal intelligence bureau of about 100 officers to "focus on the reoccupation of the city by the criminal element," he says. For the most dangerous suspects, officers meet with judges to urge them to impose high bail. For now, the N.O.P.D. has the advantage of numbers. There are about 135 people in New Orleans for every police officer--or about half the number before Katrina...
...starkest element in this heartbreaking story about Iraqi girls being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery was the observation by a Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq that sex trafficking was virtually nonexistent under Saddam. So was the violent persecution of Iraqi Christians, and so were terrorist attacks. Was regime change really necessary? ROBERT P. WAXMAN Cairo...