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...Such phenomenal statistics are leading towns and cities all over Brazil to embrace partial prohibition as a cheap and effective solution to the inner-city violence that has made it one of the bloodiest societies in the world. At least 120 municipalities have followed Diadema's lead, and the federal government encourages such prevention efforts by offering additional funding for law enforcement to towns that restrict drinking. Even international experts have taken notice...
...have to say, I’ve never been completely sold on the idea that the best way to deal with conflicts of interest is to pretend that they don’t exist. That said, I’ve always been partial to the rather sappy notion that the truth can change the world, and “the truth” is a lot more believable when it’s offered sans agenda...
...Gaddafi had taken heart from the willingness of the U.S. and Britain to reach a compromise agreement over Lockerbie. As those negotiations neared their conclusion with a partial lifting of sanctions, Seif al Islam secretly met with three MI6 officers in a hotel room in London?s posh Mayfair district late one Sunday afternoon in March 2003. (An aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Mohammed Rashid, arranged the rendezvous...
...While the CIA is watching substantial duties and numbers of its analysts get shifted to offices under the DNI, the Pentagon has in some cases been better able to stave off such transfers. This suggests at least a partial victory for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who originally was reluctant to back the creation of Negroponte's office. Officials tell TIME that the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency has handed over far fewer analysts in response to Negroponte's call. The DIA director, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, has insisted that because "we're at war," he can spare very few billets...
...government concentrator at Harvard, first-term School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 campaigned to get the University to withdraw its investments from South Africa. Today, Nolan says her participation in that movement, which led to the Harvard Corporation’s partial divestment from its South African stock in 1986, taught her that with enough support grassroots movements could be successful. “That gave me a sense that you can effect change if you have enough dedicated people working on it and you mobilize the entire community,” she says.A quarter-century...