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With regard to the Senate as a whole, we congratulate the body for working incrementally toward change. As the stalling of health-care reform has shown, major overhaul may be difficult or impossible to achieve under the current state of affairs. Given this reality, passing many small-scale bills may be the best way forward. However, if they hope to create a noticeable impact, senators must move quickly to pass a number of additional, minor bills. While any progress is better than none at all, it remains disappointing that the factional atmosphere polluting Washington today makes larger change unlikely...
Duncan-Andrade, an assistant professor of education administration at San Francisco State University, said he has driven students home so that they would not have to cross gang lines. He has also offered his lunch and bus fares to students, he said...
...Suffolk Superior Court has ordered Papadopoulos to remain in his house from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. and to submit to an electronic bracelet. Papadopolous has also surrendered his passport and cannot leave the state without notifying the Attorney General’s Office...
...Operation Green Hunt in 2009. However, a “hunt” in one form or another has been on for a while now. Since 2005, there has been an armed militia called Salwa Judum (“Purification Hunt” in the local language) in the state of Chattisgarh, comprised mostly of tribal people and blessed by the government that purported to take on the Naxalite menace. This has created a state of near civil war in that state, often pitting people within tribes against each other. There have already been several allegations from civil society groups...
...seven-to-eight percent growth rates each year, also ranked 134th in the Human Development Index in 2009 report. A breathless—and often mindless—form of development at the cost of the voiceless and marginalized is equivalent to practicing a form of internal colonialism. The state must stop conducting a war against its own people. Let crimson not taint green in Indian forestlands...