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...With seven officers dismissed over the case in recent days for dereliction of duty, the Noida scandal has reignited a national debate on police reform. Indians typically regard the police as corrupt and inefficient, and this case lends credence to the widespread perception that they focus primarily on assisting the rich and powerful. When the 3-year-old son of a wealthy resident of Noida was kidnapped in November, police launched a massive manhunt and recovered the boy within days. Indian media were quick to compare the two cases. "In a suburb in which the police swung into action...
...primary season, when actors, directors, producers and, most of all, publicists jockey--as discreetly as possible, of course--for Oscar nominations. One of the axioms of the Academy Awards is that the more difficult the subject matter, the better Oscar likes you. In that case, Notes on a Scandal should do well. The story of a teacher who has an affair with a student and the colleague who tries to blackmail her is a darkly funny commentary on class and sexuality. Its stars, JUDI DENCH and CATE BLANCHETT--both former Oscar winners and perennial candidates--sat down with TIME...
...office are like. And this White House can only envy the final trajectory of Clinton's presidency--in a trough with two years to go and then celebrated as he ran up surpluses and pulled all-nighters negotiating Middle East peace. President Ronald Reagan, stung by the Iran-contra scandal, plunged in polls 23 months before he moved out of the White House. But he overhauled his staff and went on to give his "tear down this wall" speech and sign a missile-reduction treaty with the Soviets...
...discussion of female leadership in academia inevitably raises the specter of the Summers scandal. Harvard became the center of a nationwide controversy over the place of women in academia in 2005, after then-President Lawrence H. Summers suggested that intrinsic gender differences might be partly responsible for the low representation of women in the sciences...
Nancy Hopkins ’64, the MIT biology professor who walked out on Summers’ 2005 women in science speech and told reporters that Summers remarks had made her physically ill, said it would be wrong to associate the choice of a female president with the Summers scandal...