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...What do you expect," asks Izzatullah Wasifi, director of the General Independent Administration of Anti-Corruption, "when we pay a [policeman] $60 a month, give him a gun, and tell him to stand up against terrorists and narcotics smugglers, when everyone around him is corrupt? We pay him nothing and expect him to act like an angel and go home and feed his family what - dust, rocks?" The solution, says Wasifi, is better training and higher salaries, both of which are forthcoming under a new U.S.-led police-training program. Last fall President Hamid Karzai admitted that several unnamed high...
...have not found one person who likes automated customer service. It's sad to see human interaction being replaced by computerized interaction. Computers cannot solve a problem, smile or tell you to have a nice day. I'm curious to know where the saved dollars are going: Are they lowering prices for the customers, or are they padding CEOs' retirement funds? Betty Kroupa, East Troy...
...these factors contributed to a steep drop in the frequency of insurgent attacks and suicide bombings, along with the rates of U.S. and Iraqi casualties. But remarkable as they are, the statistics don't tell you about the lives of ordinary Iraqis like the Hammadis. So in mid-March, I returned for a two-week visit to get a firsthand feel for the changes. It seemed the perfect time to take soundings: the fifth anniversary of the start of the war and a little more than a year since the start of the surge...
...repudiates the bill, he will look soft on enforcement, infuriating conservatives and alienating some working-class white swing voters. But if Republicans become identified with an enforcement-only policy, McCain will cede a lot of Hispanic votes and business support to the Democrats. His best option is to tell the truth: the SAVE Act isn't so much wrong as it is incomplete. Republicans have to offer Hispanics more than a fence...
...think any endorsement for President means jack," Ed Rendell will tell you. But if you spend a morning watching the popular governor of Pennsylvania work the phone for his favored candidate, Hillary Clinton, you quickly see why he is the exception to his own rule...