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Although he spoke of being inspired by politicians who are there for “the right reasons,” Axelrod also expressed his disappointment at the lack of bipartisan cooperation in Congress...
...program has been limited, and the task ahead remains enormous. Out of Rio's more than 1,000 favelas, the so-called Pacifier Police Divisions have been introduced in just four - authorities lack either the resources or the manpower to implement them all across the city, and they have resisted root-and-branch reforms of police forces that are unprofessional, corrupt, poorly paid and poorly armed in comparison to the drug gangs they face...
...Even this year, as “Green is the New Crimson” banners fly high, the University Center for the Environment’s guide to environmental studies lists fewer than 15 undergraduate courses that could be considered environmentally focused but not scientific. Equally significant is the lack of a relevant concentration, or of well-defined subfields and tracks within existing concentrations. In this and other ways, Harvard undergraduates intrigued by the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of environmental issues face steep odds...
...further economic clout. China's domestic publishing industry has expanded rapidly since economic reforms began in the late 70s, with 270,000 titles published last year, but overseas recognition of this growing body of literature hasn't followed as quickly. Chinese leaders have long worried about China's lack of soft-power influence of the sort that the U.S. and Europe achieve through their prominent roles in media and arts...
...Most significant, for all of his protestations about the other side's lack of integrity and his vows to govern alone, Tsvangirai has, in the end, given Mugabe exactly what he wants - sole power over the government again. As this has been Mugabe's aim all along, Tsvangirai's move is undeniably self-defeating. Karin Alexander, a Zimbabwe expert at the Institute for Democracy in Africa in Pretoria, says the MDC is giving Mugabe the opportunity to cast it as the spoiler of the peace deal. She adds, however, that the move might be seen as a tactic to impel...