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...discussion of an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group on religion and politics with a talk entitled, “This Far By Faith and By Law: Churches and Lawyers in the struggle for racial justice” in which he contrasted two forms of social reform undertaken by Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King...
...Vietnam frequently jails citizens who call for reform or democracy?and it even has a problem with its Old Guard. "These guys are considered dangerous," says a Western diplomat in Hanoi, because "they're saying the government has become the kind of institution they fought against." In 1999, war hero Lieut. General Tran Do was expelled from the Party for airing his disenchantment, and several veterans quit the Party in protest. Tien, who left the Party a year before, issued a stream of public protests. Hoang Minh Chinh, 81, a war veteran who's been imprisoned several times...
...move Washington supported. By providing advanced weapons and training, however, the U.S. is sparking concern that the police might use them for more questionable purposes. "If you give them this type of equipment, it is not a police force anymore," says Peter van Tuijl of the Partnership for Governance Reform, an international organization helping to reform Indonesia's police force. "It blurs the distinction between police and military." Santiago Villaveces of the Asia Foundation, an NGO working on democracy, law reform and civil-society issues in Indonesia, says, "This is militarizing the police when they should be demilitarizing...
Education reform that relieves the burden on local property taxpayers, while empowering parents and teachers to pursue excellence and innovation is an opportunity for a partnership for prosperity that we cannot afford to ignore if we are to keep our country strong. The cornerstone of the American dream of opportunity is education—it is the way our workforce is prepared to engage the rest of the world. Education is not just a privatebenefit, but a public good as well, and our national interest is bound up in providing quality public education for every child...
...Reform of this fiscal political question is currently being taken up by the Congress, in the process of reauthorizing the Higher Education Act. The legislation that comes up for review every so often, according to Washington lobbyist Kevin Casey...