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...street and cops in the office” has put police in states such as Argentina and Brazil out of the reach of governmental control. Although he criticized the systematic violence occurring underthe direction of upper-level police officials, Sheffield acknowledged that most police violence resulted from misconduct by individual officers. Sheffield ended his presentation by encouraging Harvard students to join Proyecto Espartaco, a “wiki for human rights” he has been working on to help Latin American human rights groups share information. He said his hope is to harness the tremendous resources of American students...
...enjoy life?'" Rahmani claims to have good relations with all the district police chiefs, and denies that he has said anything like this. Officials at the Ministry of Interior and U.S. police mentor, though, say that Rahmani is "a problem." Last month he was suspended on suspicion of misconduct, only to be reinstated a day later. Rahmani told TIME that, "being appointed or removed from a governmental post is very natural...
...Pfister for parliamentarian—who runs the proceedings for faculty meetings—will be voted on by the FAS. In addition to assigning these new posts, the council also approved a set of revisions to the FAS “procedures for responding to allegations of misconduct in research” in order to accommodate mandated regulations from the Public Health Service, a federal program that distributes research funds. One policy revision will allow FAS Dean Michael D. Smith to review research issues that do not fall within the federal government’s definition of research misconduct...
...There has also been mixed success with legislating clawbacks. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in 2002 in the wake of accounting scandals at Enron and other companies, required CEOs and CFOs of companies that have to restate earnings because of financial misconduct to pay back bonuses and incentive compensation. But that provision proved largely ineffective. The SEC didn't bring a case under this provision for four years, and when it finally found success - UnitedHealth's former CEO was forced to pay back more than $400 million worth of stock options gains, unexercised options and retirement pay after a stock...
...want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback.' KWAME KILPATRICK, the city's former mayor, resigning after a sex-and-misconduct scandal...