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...Security Adviser Condi Rice did not exert the kind of scrutiny of Rumsfeld's and Cheney's ideas as she did of the CIA and the State Department. Tenet says the lack of clear White House oversight of reconstruction efforts in Iraq meant US policy was "almost guaranteed" to fail...
...Nothing was said because words fail, and because the mood of this campus has turned decidedly inward. The administration has posted prominent signs on all academic and residential buildings barring reporters and camera crews. Over the weekend, the student government issued a polite but firm request that the media pack up and leave...
...pointed to the growing size of the American Latino population as evidence of the group’s promising future, noting that around 40 percent of Latinos in the U.S. are under 20 years of age. Young Latinos are “so numerous now that if we fail to move the needle for education, the nation’s prospects will be affected,” Cisneros said, highlighting a collective responsibility to improve public education in America. The most prevalent issue during the question and answer portion of the event was immigration reform, and Cisneros presented...
...Advocacy Center has been pressing for that "equilibrium" in state laws so that troubled individuals can be ordered into treatment, particularly when they fail to take their medications or exhibit potential for violence or self-destruction. Zdanowicz believes that some states rely on arcane law enforcement language to set out standards for involuntary commitment - in Virginia, for instance, the person must be adjudicated to be an "imminent danger" to himself or others. The center endorses more flexible language found in states like Arkansas and Wisconsin, where a judge is allowed to determine if there is a "reasonable probability" someone will...
...sheer body count on the campus horrific, but so was the relish with which the victims were killed. Doctors in the hospital where the survivors were treated described their injuries as "brutal," with each of the victims sustaining at least three bullet wounds. Of course, plenty of people fail tests and end romances and even suffer unspeakable abuse as children. And while there are a lot of narcissists in the world, many of whom crash and burn in their personal and professional lives, only an infinitesimal fraction of even the most unstable people lash out in remotely as violent...