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...would like you to please hurry ... Come sooner than September." HAMID KARZAI, Afghan President, appealing to NATO to speed up its deployment of 3,500 additional troops to help tighten security ahead of Afghanistan's national election in September...
...Australia and New Zealand now spend tens of millions of dollars a year to help small island states tackle corruption, tighten border controls and train law-enforcement officers. Police and customs agents from both countries played key roles in investigating the Fiji ice lab, and cleaning it up. Australia and New Zealand are also helping small states update their antiquated laws. Police had to wait 14 months to smash the ice gang because Fijian law does not ban methamphetamine's ingredients, only the finished product. A new drug bill?increasing the top sentence for trafficking from eight years to life...
Australia and New Zealand now spend tens of millions of dollars a year to help small island states tackle corruption, tighten border controls and train law enforcement officers. Police and customs agents from both countries played key roles in investigating the Fiji ice lab. Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison says the case "shows how important it is to have an Australian law enforcement presence in the region," both to protect the country and to stabilize its neighbors. The nine-nation mission to restore order to Solomon Islands, he says, is a model of what close cooperation can achieve. Australia...
...feel a lot of pressure to win and it has made us not play well,” Peljto said after a 76-67 loss to Quinnipiac on Jan. 13. “When teams are close we tighten up a little because we think we should win every game...
...N.Y.S.E., meanwhile, is reforming. The Big Board has split the positions of chairman and CEO, overhauled its board of directors and created the post of chief regulatory officer. In Washington the SEC is developing proposals that would tighten regulation of U.S. stock exchanges--the first order of business being that they must abide by the same disclosure rules they impose on publicly traded companies. But the changes afoot aren't enough for Spitzer. In a recent interview with the Harvard Business Review, he noted that "we have board compensation committees that are self-selected and interwoven. It's a rigged...