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...half the food aid sent to Somalia is pocketed by crooked contractors, local U.N. staffers and Islamic militants. That's the unsettling conclusion of a new Security Council report, which recommends an independent investigation into the U.N.'s World Food Programme operations in Somalia. Officials blame the failure in part on the troubled nation's lack of security: food trucks must evade militias, bandits and insurgents, whose activity makes close scrutiny difficult for aid groups...
Nancy Gibbs' otherwise excellent article about sexual harassment and abuse of women in the armed services omits a glaring, well-documented fact [March 8]: one of the reasons so many incidents of harassment and even assault are not reported is that women who report them are routinely accused of being lesbians. Women (and men) in the military can be subject to intrusive, abusive and distracting investigations into their private lives based on a single unfounded allegation about their sexuality. As long as our nation's military has a policy that makes fear of gays and lesbians more important than punishing...
...Gibbs' report should have been the cover story...
...recent report ... has the aviation alarmists in an uproar ... Unprofessional conduct by the controllers involved? Yes. Any effect on the safety of flight? No ... The boy was clearly saying what he was told to say ... There are enough real issues regarding aviation safety without having to manufacture phantom issues. The pilots on the receiving end clearly had no concerns. No one else should either." --3/3/10...
Hammonds called on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to create “a new process for adjudicating academic dishonesty cases that would expand the options for disciplinary sanctions,” as recommended in the Committee to Review the Administrative Board’s report released by Hammonds on March...