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...Pakistan Seeking Peace and Stability In an effort to quell violence, the government struck a deal with insurgents on Feb. 16 that would implement a form of Islamic law in northwest Pakistan. The ruling will cover the Malakand region, which includes the Swat Valley, a onetime tourist spot and now home base for Taliban forces. While militants have agreed to a 10-day cease-fire, critics of the deal labeled the pact a dangerous concession to violent religious extremists...
...Still others are attacking officials for failing to implement a proposed telephone warning system, and for giving homeowners the choice of evacuating or staying to fight the fire. "I know the sort of people my parents were," says Robbins. "If mum had come out and told dad that they had a call from the CFA that there was a firestorm and get in the car and go, he would have gone," she says. "There should have been a graded warning system, air raid sirens and a mandatory evacuation system...
...suicides a tragic and often preventable phenomenon in themselves, but they also lower the morale of troops and the nation as a whole. As we fight two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for high morale is clear. President Obama as commander-in-chief should work to implement higher-quality mental services into hospitals on the ground. The first place these services toward which these services should be directed is Afghanistan, since President Obama has been talking about sending more troops to assist in the fighting...
...fact, there is a very legitimate case to be made against this deal. The power sharing deal was initially signed on September 15, 2008, between Mugabe, Tsvangirai, and Mutambara after the disputed presidential election in March of that year. However, Tsvangirai’s party has refused to implement the agreement since September, demanding the cessation of human-rights abuses and citing the unilateral and inequitable distribution of key cabinet positions by Mugabe as a sign of insincerity. According to Tsvangirai, his party would not have been treated as an equal partner under the original stipulations of the agreement...
...Bush made as well in the early days of the faith-based initiative, insisting that "results" would be the only criterion by which programs were judged. But measuring the effectiveness of programs that receive government money turns out to be a monumental task, and the Bush Administration never did implement a widespread assessment program. In the current economic climate, the pressure to direct taxpayer money to only those programs that actually achieve the desired results will be even greater. But it is still unclear whether DuBois and his staff will be given the resources to carry through on their boss...