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...Zarqawi tape is an unremarkable restatement of enthusiasm for jihad in Iraq; its prime purpose seems to be to reestablish his media presence. And if recent reports that Zarqawi's status has been downsized even by his own coalition of insurgent groups are to be believed, it's not hard to see why the Jordanian fugitive synonymous with mass-casualty bombings of Iraqi Shi'ites and videotaped beheadings of kidnapped Westerners would be looking for some attention...
...nominate Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is an economist who has committed himself to the concept of economic development as a method of reducing poverty-related disease. His latest initiative, Breaking the Bottlenecks, aims to cut through the red tape that slows the creation and distribution of malaria-prevention and -treatment programs in 10 African countries...
...admits that sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam, has become a serious issue. The collapse of law and order and the absence of a stable government have allowed criminal gangs, alongside terrorists, to run amuck. Meanwhile, some aid workers say, bureaucrats in the ministries have either paralyzed with red tape or frozen the assets of charities that might have provided refuge for these girls. As a result, sex trafficking has been allowed to fester unchecked...
...that she was about to be sold to Sa'ad, the man on the phone from Dubai, she became desperate. She passed word of her confinement to a neighborhood boy, who reported it to the local police station. Officers raided the place and arrested the nurse. Bureaucratic red tape somehow kept Safah and the nurse in the same prison for six months before Safah was finally released back into the custody of the orphanage a month...
...very friendly to college students and new comics,” he says. Still, Jenkins won’t just let all comers on the Studio’s stage.“I want them to watch a few shows or get me an audition tape so we don’t get shows worthy of the Elk Lodge nickel beer night,” he says.Despite its convenient location in the Square, the club has been “difficult to find” for Harvard undergraduates, according to Jenkins. However, students from other area schools often perform...