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Crimson Head Coach Maura Costin Scalise said, "The key to our success in this meet is to concentrate on what we want to do. If we do that, no outside factors will come into the meet's outcome. We won't be intimidated...
Recent murmurings by apologists for law and order on university campuses are blocking several key considerations. First among them is the under-reported reality that our own Central Intelligence Agency is operating in direct violation of international and domestic law. And furthermore, in a nation such as ours which has historically repected such values as foreign nations' rights to self-determination--in word, of not always in deed--and our own commitment to truth in government and the use of violence only as a final resort, the CIA presents a serious and flagrant challenge...
Created in 1947, the National Security Council (NSC)--composed of the President and Vice President together with the secretaries of state and defense--was designed to be the principal forum for deciding key foreign and defense policies. A small staff, headed by the sub-cabinet National Security Advisor--or, more formally, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs--was created to assist...
...key advantage, according to Graham, is Chief Anthony Paolillo's refusal to back members of the department accused of brutality, although his predecessors tended to do so. She said members of the public are more aware of their rights and more likely to bring suit, a fact she said has reduced officers' willingness to violate citizens' rights...
Basic education is also crucial, but with so many of America's inner-city schools in disarray, outside programs are often the key to childrens' academic success. "It's a vicious cycle," says Babette Edwards of the Harlem Tutorial and Referral Project. "Low standards, the lack of a rigorous, challenging curriculum is detrimental to kids." Her organization stresses basic reading and writing skills in individual and small-group after-school sessions...