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...whose stations had been implicated in fraud, another positive step that is likely to restore some faith in the process, even if doing so adds to the already considerable logistical difficulties involved. But for many, it is not enough. Both the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) - U.S.-based democracy-support NGOs that sent observers to the initial round of voting - cite a need for enhanced security, better monitoring at each station and greater regulation of the use of state resources for campaigning. "Millions of Afghans voted on Aug. 20 despite the threats of violence, demonstrating their...
...Chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs from 1992 to 2001. The NDI is a think tank that works to promote democracy abroad...
...from a seven-year-old junior lookout for petty street crime in his childhood neighborhood of Washington Heights into a company member of New York City Ballet by age 15 and principal dancer there for over three decades. He has enjoyed a second career directing the National Dance Institute (NDI), a non-profit arts education organization he founded in 1976.In an effort to keep her son off the streets, d’Amboise’s mother had him tag along to his sister’s weekly ballet classes with a teacher named Madame Seda, where he caused disruptions...
...greatest, New York City Ballet's former principal dancer Jacques d'Amboise, brings the U.S. to the world and the world to the U.S. by joining kids in the joy of music and dance. D'Amboise has long contributed to children in the U.S. through the National Dance Institute (NDI), which brings the enchantments of dance to public-school kids, often in tough neighborhoods. This year NDI featured Potou, a Senegalese village, in its yearlong program. Thousands of New York City schoolkids studied and talked about African villages like Potou; they danced and raised funds to help them. Thanks...
...exercising the powers of the presidency to push some genuine intelligence reforms he might want to turn his attention to the Pentagon, which controls eighty percent of the nation’s $40 billion intelligence budget. The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that Congress create a National Director of Intelligence (NDI), and empower the position with budgetary authority. Rumsfeld, however, isn’t eager to cede any power to a new NDI. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are currently deadlocked with their Senate counterparts on this issue. A bi-partisan Senate bill would strip Rumsfeld of some...