Word: lawlessness
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...country often requires no papers at all. "It's impossible to control," says Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai. It's also the Taliban's gateway to revenge. Following their ouster from Afghanistan, most Taliban leaders found sanctuary among fellow ethnic Pashtuns in Pakistan's lawless Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P.) regions. Pakistani authorities have arrested nearly 500 suspected al-Qaeda members, but Karzai, among others, has charged that the U.S.'s avowed ally has shown little inclination to apprehend top-level Taliban, even when provided addresses where they could be found...
...consulate bombing were also less than impressed by such techniques, according to a Western diplomat. A police officer admits that at first his men were also afraid of the extremists, who had informers inside the police force. They were also well equipped, he says, with guns smuggled across the lawless frontier with Afghanistan and money from Arab donors. "We have over 800 madrasahs in Karachi, and many of them are nurseries for terrorism," the officer claims...
...Lawless worries that when the flurry of Harvard activity finally dies down around 1 a.m., it leaves many students alone with their anxiety. She says she wishes that more students realized that UHS after hours is not only for physical injury—the Mental Health Services are also available 24 hours...
Before seeking help, Lawless remembers wondering, “Will these [psychiatric] records follow me?” She discovered the separation between medical and psychiatric files; the latter are not routinely accessible. Lawless says the biggest problem here is the administrative attitude, which dictates that “there are no problems at Harvard...
...Lawless, her dual duties as Miss Arizona and mental health advocate are more than a full-time job; as a result, she’s taken the year off at Arizona State University law school. She says she makes a whopping 400-500 public appearances during a year, and spends “eight hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year” on various facets of her position. Lawless serves as spokesperson for numerous organizations, including the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Not My Kid Organization, which she describes as a small...