Word: reformer
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...summer painting the new Democratic President as a socialist who is eager to nationalize the entire health-care system. After all, the Administration's proposal to restructure the student-loan industry is, in many respects, much closer to an actual government takeover than its relatively tame market-driven health-reform plan. But as the House holds hearings and looks likely to pass a student-loan bill this week, it's clear that the education overhaul is not going to be the high-pitched battle that opponents and the White House once expected...
...police commissioner, Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali, fear that his dismissal is merely an attempt by the government to paper over the problems that have plagued the police force for years. They say it may be part of a conspiracy to pre-empt demands for more radical reform that are expected to emerge in the coming days. (Read "Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning...
...happened that he wasn't aware of, and he was criticized in fact for micromanaging." An official expression of skepticism about the motivation behind Ali's firing came from the U.S. embassy, which said in a statement that the move was a "potential" first step on the path toward reform. (Read "In Africa, Can Clinton Be Obama's Surrogate...
...timing of Ali's firing is interesting. A police-reform task force is expected to release its own report, complete with recommendations, in the coming weeks. An interim report recently demanded that the top brass be replaced, but the final document, when it comes out, is expected to call for a complete overhaul of the police force...
...That statement reflects what rights activists and regular Kenyans feel is the fundamental problem with the government's attitude toward reform: aside from vague promises of change, no one seems to have acknowledged that several investigations - domestic and foreign - have found strong evidence that the police in Kenya are a law unto themselves, taking hostages, collecting bribes and killing with little fear of punishment. (Read "Kenya: Protesting Politics As Usual...