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...These are the grim headlines from the14th Annual International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, where world leaders in research and advocacy gathered this week to celebrate the small victories in the battle against AIDS - and to pool artillery for the coming onslaught. The highlights...
...former chair of the Senate Finance Committee painted a grim picture of the future, saying the world is in as much danger now as it was during the Cold...
Showtime has paying viewers. It has the freedom to show naughty bits. So where is its Sopranos? Not here, though this grim look at parolees and their watchers tries. Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls' cuddly Mr. Medina) shows some edge as a controlling parole officer, and guest star Red Buttons shines as a mobster in a who's-controlling-whom relationship with Cohen. But the writing is flat--like the clumsily topical terrorism subplot--and co-star Rob Morrow, as an ex-drug dealer trying to avoid the thug life, makes the least convincing felon since Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy...
...more mayors like Duterte," says Fred Lim, an ex-mayor of Manila who is no stranger to tough tactics, "the peace and order situation in the Philippines would improve." That's one way of looking at it. Others say Duterte has achieved his results at a grim price, disregarding due process and anointing himself legislator, judge, jury?and possibly executioner?all at once. Justice in Davao, says Senator Rodolfo Biazon, a highly decorated former armed forces chief, is "not about following the law; it's about who's willing to go further...
...failures of the past are often associated with USAID, the agency through which much of U.S. development assistance is funneled. That grim history is evident in the administration's latest proposal, which calls for more than $10 billion in new foreign aid by the end of fiscal 2006 as part of Bush's so-called "Millennium Challenge Account". The funds will be managed largely by the Treasury and the State Departments, not by USAID. "The agency looks like it is loosing out on new funding, and that is why Natsios has mounted a turf battle," explains an influential congressional staffer...