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...What do you expect," asks Izzatullah Wasifi, director of the General Independent Administration of Anti-Corruption, "when we pay a [policeman] $60 a month, give him a gun, and tell him to stand up against terrorists and narcotics smugglers, when everyone around him is corrupt? We pay him nothing and expect him to act like an angel and go home and feed his family what - dust, rocks?" The solution, says Wasifi, is better training and higher salaries, both of which are forthcoming under a new U.S.-led police-training program. Last fall President Hamid Karzai admitted that several unnamed high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Enemy | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...What do you expect," asks Izzatullah Wasifi, Director of the General Independent Administration of Anti- Corruption and Bribery, "when we pay a [policeman] $60 a month, give him a gun, and tell him to stand up against terrorists and narcotics smugglers, when everyone around him is corrupt? We pay him nothing and expect him to act like an angel and go home and feed his family what - dust, rocks?" The solution, he says, is better training and higher salaries, both of which are forthcoming under a new U.S.-led national police-training program. But as long as higher government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Corruption a Growing Concern | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...home by eight kids - the youngest was 11 - who punched him to the ground, hustled him to the nearest cash machine and forced him to reveal his PIN number. After a series of attacks in the area, local residents have gathered in Steen's apartment to talk to the policeman handling the case. His advice: "Don't go out unless you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Mean Streets | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...Friday before her resurrection, Hillary Clinton seemed exhausted, played out. She attended a funeral in Dallas for a policeman who had been killed in a traffic accident while accompanying her motorcade. Her campaign plane seemed funereal as well, reporters and staff sick - the dry, incestuous campaign coughs reverberating through the fuselage - and spent after the most intense eight-week run in the history of American politics. She wandered into Waco, Texas, that afternoon, uninspiring before an unimpressive crowd. In San Antonio that night, her stump speech collapsed into unstructured chaos. She yelled hoary Democratic clichés at the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race Goes On | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...corrupt society that surrounds him to keep himself spiritually pure. He encounters Nyawira, a young woman who actively fights for social change amidst the corrupted society, as they flee from the police. Although at first they are wary of one another, they end up cooperating to scare off the policeman who follows them by posturing as the Wizard of the Crow. From this original collaboration, a whole mythos is created. The officer later comes back for assistance, and the reputation of the Wizard of the Crow spreads. Together, Kamiti and Nyawira are established as the Wizard of the Crow...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Wizard of the Crow, By Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (Anchor) | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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