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...then-Illinois senator. Taking a more critical stance, Joel B. Pollak ’99, who graduated from the Law School in 2009 and is running for Congress in the 9th district of Illinois, called upon the Jewish community to “hold the Obama administration and Congress accountable?? for recent Middle East policy including a much-publicized speech in Cairo, a delayed show of support for protestors after the presidential elections in Iran, and sustained pressure on Israel to halt settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Pollak gained brief media attention last spring when...
...from the audience. Ban said he was pleased about the progress made on global health issues, particularly the active role governments and the business community have played in helping eradicate diseases. Ban also emphasized that he is working to make the UN “more transparent and more accountable?? to improve its global image. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...that would produce tangible benefits—not more bureaucracy. Should Bush’s vision prevail, he has left us with little confidence in what will happen to American education should institutions, with their budgets reduced, fail to meet the thresholds they are being held “accountable?? to. Whatever money might be spent on these tenuously constructed proposals would better serve bolstering notoriously underfunded secondary schools, where standardized testing can be used more effectively, and making higher education more affordable. While these traditional routes don’t have the ideological pizzazz...
...Patten Commission was responsible for recommending a set of policing reforms that were eventually implemented. Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Kennedy School of Government Christopher Stone, who moderated, kicked off the event by describing policing in democracies as “policing that is accountable?? to the public, civil government, and society in general. The panelists discussed counterterrorism policing and how to address the concerns about civil liberties that it creates, as well as how public trust in police forces can be maintained, particularly through internal and external investigations of police conduct. Kelly...
...Journal of Economic Perspectives, connects the period of cold weather in Europe known as the “little ice age” to an increase in witch trials from 1520 to 1770. Oster hypothesizes that after climate conditions devastated crops, Europeans looked for someone to hold accountable??eventually resulted in the burning of tens of thousands of witches...