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Addressing 100 students blocking a parking garage driveway defended by eight visored police with billy clubs, UCLA Sophomore Chiemela Okwandu told the crowd, "This is our university. We can sleep here if we want." Speaking to TIME, Okwandu said the $2,500 tuition increase will be a major problem for many students. "Some of my friends won't be here next quarter. Before it was a question of how smart you were. Now, it's do you have enough money to pay for school." Veronica Hernandez, who grew up in East LA and attends UC Riverside, said, "It took...
...problem, of course, is that Obama's letter may have gone to the wrong address. As a weak and unpopular President scarcely seen in public and now the object of growing vilification at home, Zardari is in no position to lead a popular movement against militancy, much less to redirect his army's focus. As ever, it is the all-powerful military establishment that will make the key decisions in Pakistan...
...Critics, however, deride the new measures as toothless and say tackling the problem requires serious structural reforms. Former St. Petersburg police investigator and prominent crime journalist Yevgeny Vyshenkov compared Nurgaliyev to a collective farm owner whose chickens keep dying mysteriously. "To fix the situation, his great idea is to have the chicken troughs made in the shape of a triangle, but the chickens keep dying," Vyshenkov said. "Then he has the troughs made in the shape of a rectangle, but the chickens keep dying. Then a worker tells him all the chickens have died, and the owner says: 'What...
...heart of the problem, experts say, are the paltry wages that hinder the recruitment of good officers and encourage police to supplement their wages through graft and criminal rackets. Dymovsky, the Internet whistleblower, complained that his monthly wage as a policeman in the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk was only 14,000 rubles ($487) and that he worked extensive overtime for no additional pay. "What motivation is there to serve honestly?" said Kirill Kabanov, head of the National Anticorruption Committee, a nongovernmental organization. Many prospective recruits eschew police forces in favor of security agencies such as the Federal Security Service...
...never happened, who's to say France wouldn't have scored a few minutes later? Or won the game, and the World Cup spot, on penalty kicks? Because of the blown call, we'll never know what really should have happened. A brand new match doesn't solve that problem. So let's all move on. Fer crissakes...