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With a smaller number of concentrators to manage, more time must be devoted to the improvement of the department’s oft-bemoaned academic program—not simply an advertisement campaign to refill the ranks of concentrators. “The Government Department Wants YOU to be a Government concentrator!” states the ubiquitous poster representing the department’s extensive ad campaign. Well, what students want is not on a upsurge in numbers, but rather tangible and substantive improvements to the Government program itself...
...Based on a nonfiction book by George Crile, a former producer for 60 Minutes, the film follows the quixotic quest of a hard-drinking, oft-screwing Texas Congressman (Hanks) to get funding for antiaircraft weapons so that Afghani rebels can defeat their Soviet invaders. This was back in the 1980s, before the mujahedeen had flowered into the Taliban and backed Osama bin Laden's war against the U.S. (A postscript to the movie quotes Wilson as saying, "We f---ed up the endgame...
...road for the Himalayan nation. After a decade-long civil war that has claimed 13,000 lives and prompted mass protests in 2006 against the autocratic rule of King Gyanendra, the Maoists have been brought into the political mainstream, via a peace agreement that would turn the oft-romanticized Hindu kingdom into a secular republic representing the true social and ethnic diversity of Nepal's 27 million people. The self-styled People's Liberation Army agreed to retire to rural camps such as this one, to begin preparing their fighters for integration into a new National Army...
Targeted divestment is a popular and oft-proposed solution for some of the worst atrocities in the world. In November, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 signed into law a targeted divestment bill aimed at putting pressure on the Sudanese government to cease the genocide in Darfur. In September, students marched through Harvard Square to urge the passage of a bill that would stop public pension funds from investing in companies that enable the military junta in Myanmar. These advocates apparently believe that they can make a difference by convincing financial institutions to stop investing in companies...
...medical files it keeps on its interrogations--or for the audiotape and two videos the CIA says it still has of the questioning of unidentified prisoners requested in a federal court case. The procurement and public airing of such evidence would be one way to test the CIA's oft-repeated assertions that it never tortures and that all its secret interrogations have been conducted in full compliance with...