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...would confirm so much: they play the most attractive football in recent memory; Ronaldinho is a player for the ages; once and for all, Barça will shed their lineage of underachievement. But there's no way that I will be able to fully enjoy this game, to root against Henry and other Arsenal players I love. Even if Barça wins, I fear I will have lost...
...with the federal government’s War on Drugs. Rather than tie drug convictions to rehabilitation or education programs, the AEP sets drug offenders further back by denying them access to education. Such hard paternalism is the hallmark of the War on Drugs. This strategy neither addresses the root causes of drug use nor forestalls future offenses. If the government is serious about combating drug use, it must focus its efforts on education and prevention, rather than punishment and restriction of educational opportunity...
...failure of will or coordination can derail attempts by a government to set its own house in order. Moreover, whistleblowers in third world governments, even more so than those in the West, often face threats and intransigence. John Githongo, appointed by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki to root out corruption, ended up fleeing the country after exposing what he called “looting and grand corruption.” The best way to encourage and sustain the work of whistleblowers is to subject the government to thoroughgoing media scrutiny.Finally, focusing on press freedom emphasizes the power...
...After the department rejected the tenure bids of two left-leaning associate professors, Galbraith—who supported the tenure-seekers—circulated a memo calling for the creation of a breakaway branch of the department that would teach "non-conventional" topics, including Marxism. The proposal never took root...
...timely. Although the government awoke quite late to the reality of terrorism, it now seems sincere in its attempts to curb Islamic militancy. But the government's coalition partners are fundamentalists, and that seems to be the Achilles' heel of the rulers. The government appears paralyzed and unable to root out religious militancy for fear of losing the fundamentalists' support. Statesman-ship demands that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party put aside its concerns about winning elections and repudiate its dangerous coalition partners for the greater cause of democracy. Ali Ahmed Dhaka...