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...Pentagon says it has instituted reforms to prevent the detainee abuse that occurred in the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison scandal from ever happening again. But in a scathing 48-page report released on Monday, Amnesty International concludes that whatever reforms have been put into effect are clearly not doing the job: Mistreatment of detainees in Iraq, particularly by Iraqi security forces, is still widespread, Amnesty argues...
Poor Lucy. Five months after setting up shop in Sin City, jilting suitors around the country in favor of a sugar daddy who courted her with a new $40 million home, she discovers the fleeting nature of Las Vegas romance. A sultry soap opera? Political scandal? No--just the harsh reality of Broadway in Vegas...
...long as the president’s office stays out of the educating business. Bureaucrats are really unprepared to make these sorts of decisions, and Summers never should have tried to dictate what counts as “acceptable” academic work (à la the Cornel West scandal). If the Corporation selects a new president who stays out of the academic fray, our problems will be gone. But quarantining our problems won’t solve them; if Harvard is to grow, academics and administration cannot help but intersect. Increasing international opportunities, channeling more research funding into...
...this is not simply an issue of style. As the recent multi-million-dollar Russian reform fraud scandal involving his close friend and fellow economist Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 illustrates, Summers also has an ethics problem. This is perhaps most starkly evident in the way that he worked to maintain a fortress of secrecy around him while employing Washington-style political tactics as a way to embarrass or humiliate colleagues. In Summers’ inner circle, economics is about power rather than principle. And this debilitating corporate worldview—where market values...
...clearing house of ideas in Australia,' he was right." The essential Howard is a scrapper and proselytizer with a thick skin. In the House of Representatives this year, he and his ministers have been pounded during Question Time, the P.M. mostly impassive before Labor's inquisitorial blitz about the scandal of AWB Ltd. and the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. And during those first two sitting weeks, when the P.M. had heard enough, arms and body would spring up - "Mr. Speaker!" - as he spat taunts across the chamber - "Mr. Speaker!" - hand thumping the dispatch box in a climax...