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...structure. “There are nice lines between the UC’s committees, the student-faculty committees, and the College offices...that was one of the big goals of the Dowling Report.”The report also recommended that the student-faculty committees be given decision-making power. Decisions could be vetoed by the committee chair, who in turn could be overruled by a two-thirds vote.Hammonds and Smith disagreed with this particular suggestion. Smith wrote in a letter to Dowling Committee chair Professor John E. Dowling in May, “I would like to clarify...
...think in the next few weeks we will see some policies issued, and the first swine flu vaccine given as early as October,” he said...
Clay County, says Martin Hatfield, a former federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Kentucky, is "certainly an area that's been given a lot of attention from the federal authorities over the past several years. Who knows what kinds of emotions that has stirred up?" In such areas, Cross says, there's a certain tolerance of underground economies - and additional sensitivity to any perceived government snooping. Hatfield notes that local residents may turn a blind eye to drugs and corruption because of fear of retribution. "Fear becomes the norm - people don't know any other way, and it becomes...
...Gaddafi's animosity toward Switzerland may seem bizarre - or maybe not, given the Libyan leader's all-female bodyguard squad and penchant for pitching Bedouin tents during state visits to other countries. Relations between Libya and Switzerland soured in July 2008, when Gaddafi's son Hannibal and his wife were arrested by police in Geneva for allegedly beating their two servants at a local hotel. Gaddafi was so enraged by his son's two-day detention that he immediately retaliated by shutting down local subsidiaries of Swiss companies Nestlé and ABB in Libya, arresting two Swiss businessmen for supposed...
...reportedly ended up costing many times the original estimate of $177 million, a phenomenal amount given that none of the money went to the promised infrastructure projects. (Some reports had the final costs in Rio close to $2 billion; the costs of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, according to Chinese organizers, totaled roughly $2.5 billion.) Some commentators said that was indicative of corruption, but it also suggests serious deficiencies in organization and planning. "Brazil is still learning how to do continuous public policy," Alencar said. "Public works are emergency, localized, specific. There is no strategic planning involved. That was what...