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...Rather, I was commenting on human-rights issues related to the police's Mobile Brigade. The placement of my quote, however, gives the impression that I was criticizing the training for Task Force 88, which is not the case. The Asia Foundation supports U.S. government-funded police training and reform programs in Indonesia. Santiago Villaveces The Asia Foundation Jakarta...
...current state of war. Who is President Bush to ask American troops to go abroad and fight when he was disinclined to do so himself? Only someone who knows what war entails can determine if war is truly necessary. Matthew Herman Westport, Connecticut, U.S. Europe Needs Tax Reform Your article on the sharp increase in taxes in Europe in the past 30 years included a sidebar "Want Lower Taxes? Go East" [July 19]. It said many people believe that companies may flee the high tax rates of France and Germany and head east to countries like Poland and Slovakia, where...
...intelligence director but wouldn't give the position the power that comes only with budget authority. That avoided a bitter turf war within his Administration, but it left him open to charges--not only from Kerry but also from Republican members of the commission--that he was dodging real reform. The commission's Republican chairman Tom Kean even went so far as to tell TIME that the watered-down version of the recommendations as initially proposed by Bush would be a "waste of time." Kerry, on the other hand, has said he would adopt all the commission's recommendations...
...longest waiting lists for operations have been reduced. The Labour government has been loath, however, to question the basic structure of the NHS - to the detriment of British patients who can't afford private care, says Dr. Maurice Slevin, an oncologist and member of the U.K. organization Doctors for Reform. "Here patients have no power," he says. "We want to move away from a Soviet-style, monolithic, nationalized industry that provides very poor value for money." Slevin says the number of managers in the NHS has grown three times faster than medical staff. French anesthesiologist Françoise Iossifidis...
...rule, he confessed: "Oh dear, I'm really confused." Most Germans are just as bewildered about how their written language is changing - which is why a grassroots revolt is trying to save the old ways. Back in 1996, the governments of Germany, Switzerland and Austria agreed on far-reaching reforms meant to simplify the spelling and grammar of their complex common tongue. Educators had argued that the old rules were confusing and contradictory. But the revision - 12,000 new or altered spellings and many grammar changes, which have been taught in most classrooms since 1998 - turned out to be just...