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...economic downturn has taken a toll on student workers across campus, limiting employment opportunities and forcing students to take shorter shifts at workplaces ranging from libraries to the Office of Career Services. Evelyn R. Wenger ’11, a student receptionist who has worked at OCS for the past two years, said that the maximum amount of hours each student can work per week has been reduced this year. Wenger worked between seven and ten hours each week last year, but she can no longer put in the same number of hours due to policy changes and new hour...
...disturbing as they are, the allegations of abuse are just one of many in the federal report focusing on four of New York State's worst juvenile-justice institutions. The report, which warns that the Federal Government could take over the system if the "constitutional deficiencies" are not remedied, is a shocking indictment of both excessive force and mangled, unprofessional mental-health treatment; one 15-year-old, with no agreed-upon diagnosis, was found to be on six psychotropic medications at once. The unions for the guards and professional staff both say they also want to see improvement but insist...
...course it's possible that the new commissioner will actually take some significant steps, but there's no indication of that," Philip Alston, Kenya's U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, tells TIME. "And there's no suggestion in his background that he's going to do anything other than business as usual...
...unsafe to go out after dark, and carjackings and break-ins are common. "Unfortunately, during my tenure, vilification of police became a national pastime," he said at a ceremony marking his departure. "Police work is not a public-relations exercise. You will make many happy and unhappy, but I take pride in what I have done...
...entries each year. No film festival has a moral obligation to accept a film, but TIFF's slogan of "Action! For Earth" raised more than a few eyebrows when the widely lauded eco-documentary didn't make the cut. In the end, Yoda said, the festival "decided to take The Cove due to international attention worldwide." (See pictures of Japan and the world...