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...That is why the Guatemalan government, with the leading voice of Vice President Eduardo Stein, has repeatedly stressed the need to create the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a U.N.-backed independent body that would be allowed to investigate high-level government corruption in the country. The proposal for the commission has been around for years but has failed to build up enough support to allow its passage in Congress. Authorities and human rights activists say it is the only way Guatemala will be able to uncover the full extent of illegal armed groups operating in the country...
...salary increase was especially notable for executive positions, where public institutions saw median salaries rise 4.9 percent, as compared to 4.4 percent at private institutions. The survey also highlighted trends aside from the increases in administrators’ salary. Women are more likely than ever to hold high-level administrative positions. According to the survey, females now represent one-third of all chief academic officer and provost positions and over one-third of all dean of arts and sciences positions. In particular, women are now also more likely to serve as deans in engineering departments. They now represent 11.5 percent...
...it’s time for Perret to adopt the “ex” prefix as well. He has substituted ideology for methodology and invective for insight. He habitually uses phrases like “shit in a silk stocking” to describe Cabinet members and high-level aides. Would a count of Perret’s errors this time top McPherson’s mark of 120? Maybe, but more to the point, why would anyone waste the time tabulating...
...small world of Washington, there are many who have simply come to know a certain candidate personally and feel something akin to a social obligation. Says a high-level Democratic activist: "Your children are in the same school. You see them in nonpolitical circumstances. People wind up making choices that surprise people because of existing loyalties." There's the story of the young ex-Clinton aide who failed to sign on to Clinton's campaign and instead went to work for Senator Joe Biden. Why? Because Biden gave her husband his first job, and she felt...
Though Ashkenazi has never been charged with wrongdoing in an Israeli or international court, a report by B’Tselem said that Israeli military units—units Ashkenazi held high-level positions in and eventually commanded—were responsible for financing, arming, and controlling...