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...Middle East Democracy In "Lessons from the Rubble," about the bombing of the U.N. offices in Baghdad [Sept. 1], you stated that the U.S. in Iraq is "directly attempting to midwife the birth of a peaceful, democratic state that can act as a model for the Islamic world." If this is a key objective, why doesn't the U.S. start with the Palestinians? Not only have they asked for international peacekeepers, but they also want a democratic nation of their own. In terms of dollars and lives, setting up a Palestinian state would be cheap compared with the undertaking...
...police insisted it was a model bust. They'd stopped a taxi on its way into the industrial city of Lanzhou on the fringe of the Gobi Desert. While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
...Zhou plans to combat the dismal esprit de corps in part by reminding officers that they serve a greater good?witness Shanghai's police slogan: "The People Are Our Mother and Father." Shanghai has become a model for "community policing," an attempt to introduce modern, people-friendly law-enforcement methods. City leaders divided the city into a grid?10,000 households per sector?and opened a tiny office with one officer in each sector. Neighborhood officers respond not just to emergencies but to people locked out of their apartments and senile residents who get lost?a way of breaking down...
...impact of his death will be considerable,” she said, “because who else can be so brave, in the climate of fear and conformism? Said was a model for people...
...model, as in the system long employed for tenure appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and several other Harvard faculties, no ad hoc panel is convened until the appointment is first considered and recommended at the faculty level. Having been convened, the ad hoc committee provides advice to the president, but is not called upon to approve or disapprove the appointment...