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...taken seriously until 2002, when he met Nuala O'Loan. She had been appointed the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland as part of the reforms that followed the 1998 Good Friday settlement. A Catholic academic, Mrs. O'Loan's background is very different from McCord's. But she has proven to be equally tough-minded. Her report on a four-year investigation, published January 22, confirms McCord's basic conclusions. It alleges that some police informers in Northern Ireland got away with murder because of a policy that put control in the hands of the force's intelligence handlers rather...
...will give students who use the CUE guide a concrete interest participating rather than a vague sense of obligation or hope of winning that elusive free iPod. For a student body so loud in its complaints about its TFs and workloads, Harvard students this year have proven remarkably apathetic in constructively criticizing their courses. Only half were willing to take time out of reading period to provide valuable feedback for professors and administrators. It’s time to rethink the CUE, and Harvard can start by offering a better product and holding accountable those who fail to contribute...
...cortex while imitating or observing facial expressions--and the more severe the autism, the more depressed the activity was. The results did not surprise Dapretto. A central problem in autism, after all, is an impaired ability to understand the feelings of others, and it seems plausible, if far from proven, that a deficiency in the mirror-neuron system could be involved...
Finally, as part of his or her obligation to undergraduates, the president must listen to campus leaders. Campus groups have proven students’ eagerness to participate in the administration of their school and the president must regard students as critical shareholders in the administration of the University. Student leaders seek a president who will listen to them and prioritize undergraduate interests...
...surge" plan to work, al-Maliki will have to change his ways. Ahead of Bush's speech, al-Maliki aides told journalists in Baghdad that the Prime Minister was willing to let the Americans take down the militias. But such promises have in the past proven empty. Unlike Bush, who has finally acknowledged some mistakes in his Iraq policies, al-Maliki has never expressed any regret over his open defense of the militias. Nor has he been able to wean himself away from his political dependence on al-Sadr. As long as al-Maliki needs al-Sadr's backing...