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...Governor had promised four years ago to fix the state's child-welfare mess. But even though Bush oversaw a 27% increase in child-protection funding, 60 children who had previous contact with the state's child-welfare system died of abuse or neglect in 1999 and 2000, and as many as 1,000 were unaccounted for. Bush's Democratic challenger, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who is lagging in the polls, was quick to use the tragedy against Bush. The murder, she says, "certainly indicates that Rilya Wilson's case was not an isolated incident. There is simply...
...soldier's attitude toward politics springs from his training at the academy. All cadets attend lectures on governance. Arts majors take a political-science course studying Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Indian strategist Chanakya, Arab historian Ibn Khaldun and Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal. But the average soldier learns more in the mess hall and the boxing ring than from this tutoring in political theory. "Phhh," sneers Major General Hamid Rab Nawaz, the academy's commandant. "I never studied political science myself...
...once represented Yoder. "If Yoder is mentally ill and does not recognize that, then they need to medicate him. If he's not mentally ill, they should let him go. But they know when they have to do anything with him, it's going to be a big hairy mess...
...Nationalist Action Party and the Motherland Party. On the opposition side are the center-right True Path Party and Justice and Development, led by former Istanbul Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan and suspected by the military of having a worrying Islamist agenda. With Turkey in such a political and economic mess, and its stability resting on the NATO-E.U.-IMF tripod, Cem's new movement appears well placed to attract the talent necessary to lead the country into the post-Ecevit future. The danger, many feel, is that continuing uncertainty will undermine the hard work - much of it by Dervis...
...students found the mess before we did,” said SSP proctor Benjamin T. Siracusa ’03, who lives in Straus B. “It was on the fourth floor landing, and apparently one of the intruders covered it with a piece of paper...