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...post-Watergate era, when Ford faced a skeptical public. Even so, he says, citizens still need to trust that the government is working for the greater good. He says, "The good news is that our surveillance, methodology and public health professionals have never been better. But we are human and mistakes may be made - as happened with the 1976 swine flu affair - and we may jump the gun in the hope of preserving life. The current outbreak is a situation in flux. The American public has to be forgiving and patient and do [their] part...
...difference between rats and human beings is that rats learn from experience. Excess will be back. It's just lying low until the storm passes. William Shallcross, Winter Park...
...scathing about them. The army subcontracts much of the fighting to ill-disciplined paramilitaries, he writes, keeping its best-trained troops close to Bangkok to stymie or stage coups d'état. The police, McCargo says, are "vicious and incompetent." His unsparing criticism is supported by groups like Human Rights Watch, which, in a 2007 report, attributed 21 "disappearances" to the security forces, including that of campaigning Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelaphaichit...
...difference between rats and human beings is that rats learn from experience. Excess will be back. It's just lying low until the storm passes. William Shallcross, WINTER PARK...
...Kabul Women's Rights Under Siege Shouting slogans like "You are a dog, not a Shi'ite woman!" a group of nearly 1,000 Afghan men and women surrounded protesters at a rally against the Shi'ite personal status law. Human-rights groups say the controversial legislation, approved in March, effectively sanctions marital rape and regulates when women may leave their homes. Some counter-demonstrators began throwing stones before police intervened. Though President Hamid Karzai has agreed to review the law, Mohammad Asif Mohseni, the country's top Shi'ite cleric, accused U.N. and U.S. critics of "cultural invasion." Meanwhile...