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...shooting, however, should prompt police and law enforcement generally to reflect upon the culture of police and civilian relationships. Given the pervasiveness of police brutality, it is clear that something has gone awry in police culture. While we cannot speak to the effectiveness or quality of training that cops receive, these processes stand to be reevaluated in light of this incident. Citizens must be able to trust that the police will protect them while respecting their personal liberties. Stricter limitations and guidelines must be set in order to ensure that the police mistreat...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Policing the Police | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...there's a whole bunch of Brad Pitt lookalikes on television anymore. There are so many other choices now, I think when people watch the news it's because they really choose to do it. Obviously you have to be able to speak well, but speaking skills and the ability to explain something simply trump looks. Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Todd: The Goateed Guru of Politics | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...these religious leaders cannot claim to speak for all Christians. Much of their agenda is either extra-scriptural or plainly illogical. For example, the parts of the Bible that pro-life activists cite to justify their cause are not explicit and can often be interpreted in different ways. “Of course, nothing addresses abortion directly,” concedes Willem A. VanGemeren, a professor of the Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Nor have the champions of the Religious Right bothered to explain how their support for the death penalty or the tragically costly War in Iraq...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark | Title: A Post-Partisan Christianity | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...distant days of 1959. Save perhaps the Castro brothers and a meagre number of his septuagenarian ruling elite, we have all been told or have read about Cuba and its revolutionary experience. Regardless of whether we love or loathe them, we must conceive of those memories critically, for they speak as much about Cuba as they do about...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: That 50 Years Is Nothing | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...declared his “respect…and admiration for Fidel,” at a time when La Paz’s crackdown on political opposition and his economic policies are isolating his country from most foreign markets. Perhaps most tragically, the terrorists of the Colombian FARCs speak of equality, but fund their devious state-within-a-state through cocaine rather than communitarianism...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: That 50 Years Is Nothing | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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