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...screwing up another cop-pair's drug bust, Jimmy and Paul have been suspended without pay. Worse, Paul suspects his lovely wife (Rashida Jones) of cheating on him. Worst, Jimmy's daughter is getting married and he needs to produce $48,000 for the wedding. Even worster, a thief (mouthy Seann William Scott) has swiped the one precious item Jimmy owns - a 1952 Andy Pafko baseball card - whose sale was going to finance the wedding. The theft leads Jimmy and Paul to the drug lord Poh Boy (Guillermo Diaz, who's good within the narrow guidelines) and his kidnap victim...
...Europe is now experiencing an unfortunate situation where member countries can create unsustainable deficits or be home to failing financial systems and for this reason place the entire economic system and currency at risk. Greece’s current fiscal situation, in which the government is struggling immensely to pay the bills and teetering on the edge of financial collapse, is a prime example of this, as a Greek default could create a dangerous run on the Euro, which would negatively affect all of Europe because of the united monetary policy. And Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy unfortunately...
...recent study by Harvard’s Center for Policy Education Research (CEPR), two indicators of teacher effectiveness include whether instructors were hired before or after the beginning of the school year and where they received their undergraduate education—factors typically not rewarded with increased pay...
...government. You can't be taken seriously unless you fire people," Fayyad says. As a result, "we're beginning to see some economic growth. Cement consumption is up 30%." Part of the growth has been funded by aid from the U.S., Europe and the Islamic world, which helps pay the salaries of government workers and funds new infrastructure projects. In 2008, Fayyad held a conference in Bethlehem, looking to begin the next phase - private development - and got some takers, including a Palestinian developer named Bashar Masri who is building an entire new city for 50,000 just outside Ramallah...
...close watch on Afghanistan's difficult neighbor. Pakistan's support for the Taliban and the Haqqani network has frequently bedeviled U.S. military plans, as Afghan fighters have too easily slipped across the border and found sanctuary. But a year's worth of diplomatic pressure on Islamabad began to pay off before Operation Moshtarak: Pakistan launched a major military offensive of its own in South Waziristan, not against the Afghan Taliban but against its Pakistani cousins known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan...