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...bleak humanitarian assessment comes after four years of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq at a cost of nearly $6 billion. A recent report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says the United States has finished 2,797 reconstruction projects, but Iraq's dysfunctional government has managed to take control of just 435 of them. Thousands of newly completed projects ranging from hospitals to power plants risk going unused and falling into disrepair...
...least a dozen plays about Iraq - and many others more broadly about the Middle East - have been staged in London over the last four years. A few of them, like The Madness of George Dubya and A Weapons Inspector Calls, both cheekily satirizing the Blair-Bush axis, have successfully made the transfer from fringe to West End hits...
...allowing imports to come in at over 300 ports of entry, it would be impossible to have staff at each facility, said the panel, leaving great potential for shady importers to take advantage. "They know what ports to go into, they know where the FDA does not have an inspector or a lab, and they know what private labs they can go to for testing," said Kevin Barstow, investigative counsel for the committee...
...there are promising signs, including the long-delayed appointment of a city inspector general to act as a watchdog over public agencies, and ongoing investigations into corruption by past officials - an effort that Nagin, to his credit, spearheaded in his first term. New population statistics show that the city has regained more than half of its pre-Katrina population. Citizen-led reforms have consolidated the city's patchwork and inefficient network of property assessors and replaced the politician-dominated levee oversight system with a centralized office staffed largely by engineers and scientists. Enrollment at Tulane and Loyola University, New Orleans...
...services for high-risk youth. Police set up six-man "youth action teams" who speed to outbreaks of gang violence and arrest troublemakers. The aim is to get the youngsters charged with breaches of the peace with bail conditions that will take them off the streets at night. Says Inspector Jason Hewett, the policing development manager: "The goal is for zero tolerance." He is confident authorities are already having some success. "I'm being careful here-and homicides could happen in 30 minutes-but there have been no murders since November and that's a significant drop in violence." Nevertheless...