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Those new energy-fueled tastes are turning Baku into a boomtown, despite widespread poverty in the rest of the country. Regular Azeris, who have an average cash income of $1,140 a year, are reeling from inflation (tomatoes have recently doubled in price). But much of Baku is upbeat and partying. "There's a mood that Azerbaijan is now sustainable," says Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. BP's operation has brought in thousands of oil workers and businesspeople, mostly British, who pack nightclubs with names like Le Chevalier and Le Mirage to dance with local women dressed in spiked boots...
...With seven officers dismissed over the case in recent days for dereliction of duty, the Noida scandal has reignited a national debate on police reform. Indians typically regard the police as corrupt and inefficient, and this case lends credence to the widespread perception that they focus primarily on assisting the rich and powerful. When the 3-year-old son of a wealthy resident of Noida was kidnapped in November, police launched a massive manhunt and recovered the boy within days. Indian media were quick to compare the two cases. "In a suburb in which the police swung into action...
...Harvard Corporation’s earlier decisions to divest from holdings in these two companies earned the University widespread praise as the catalyst for a national movement in which 30 other universities and six states have divested from companies supporting the Sudanese government’s genocidal regime. This movement has generated more leverage over Khartoum than most of the governmental approaches to date. So while the revelations about the scale of Harvard’s indirect investments are deeply troubling, there is still reason to be hopeful that Harvard will take the action necessary to live...
...prime minister's office. Muttlag says the entire U.S.-backed political structure in Iraq, parliament included, should be torn down and rebuilt. "Reconciliation will never happen under the Maliki government or a similar government," says Muttlag. "We're now looking for another solution." Such feelings are becoming more widespread in Iraq as the country waits for the White House to announce its new strategy. An increase in U.S. troops appears imminent, but many view even a successful military push to secure Baghdad and other areas of Iraq as only half a solution at best...
...chiefs also complain that the surge seems to involve only guys with guns. There is a widespread feeling that the Pentagon has shouldered the entire load in Iraq while U.S. government agencies better suited for reorganizing political and economic systems have dropped the ball. Other agencies, most notably the State, Justice and Energy departments, lag in sending experts and advisers to help the Iraqis pull themselves together. Uniformed officers say they can pull off a surge, but it won't make any difference if there isn't a larger, government-wide strategy to mend the broken country...