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...Conversely, enhancing the Iraqi population??s sense of autonomy has led to positive security results. In Ramadi, for example, Col. Sean MacFarland, commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, consulted sheiks and discovered that a major concern of potential police recruits was the safety of their families, whom al-Qaida frequently intimidated and threatened to murder. MacFarland’s brigade proposed that if tribal leaders encouraged locals to join the police force, the army could construct police stations in the locals’ neighborhoods. This active collaboration expanded the autonomy of tribal leaders...
...projected physical growth in the coming decade, according to a statement released by the university on Monday. The goals of the proposal, the statement said, include strengthening Princeton’s record on environmental issues; expanding common spaces for students; and accommodating the proposed expansion of the undergraduate population??from 4,700 to 5,200 by 2012—while still maintaining the “parklike” nature of the campus. “It’s not a development project—it’s a master plan that a municipality might have...
...Political power begins, it is often argued, from the composition of discourse itself. And if discourse and voice is the democratic route towards empowerment, then the silence of certain demographic groups is troubling. A select few Asian ethnicities are fortunate enough to comprise a substantial proportion of the campus population??these ethnicities can more easily draw upon sheer numerical leverage in order to make their presence and voices heard. Asians collectively comprise a fifth of campus. But what of other, less represented groups? Mexican Americans make up 3.7 percent of the undergraduate population, while comprising 7.4 percent...
There are four million Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, who do not have freedom; furthermore, twenty percent of Israel’s internal population??the Arabs–is heavily discriminated against, a fact well-documented by numerous Israeli NGOs. Its actions in Lebanon which displaced a third of the population and killed 1200 Lebanese civilians drew censure from all corners. To descend from his own ivory tower, Schor needs to understand that people are able to condemn the human rights abuses of both the Iranian regime, and the Israeli government. No state should be immune to legitimate...
...stagnation has been greatly affected by the French population??s profound resistance to change, which has left democratically elected politicians little room to maneuver. Remarkably, this resistance is particularly concentrated in the French youth...