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...efforts at democracy building as a condition for foreign aid and as a criterion for judging the work of U.S. ambassadors. But some officials inside the White House admit that the Administration's attention appears sporadic, limited to calling for elections but then failing to follow through on the tougher, more costly and less glamorous work of building institutions that can sustain democracies. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, says, "The Administration's top-down approach of assuming that elections will solve problems has been too simplistic. You also need educational institutions and economic...
...coming months, which could bring back voters who polls indicate have turned away from his party. If elections are anytime soon, the big winners may turn out to be the opposition social democrats, the party Hirsi Ali first joined and later abandoned - ironically, because she preferred the vvd's tougher line on integration...
...paper on the wines of the Jura, and I was very young when I finished my Ph.D. the next year, and I thought, If I can do that, maybe I can become an assistant professor. Aren't there kids like that now at the Sorbonne? Sure, but it's tougher for them. There aren't enough teachers; there's very little tutoring, the profs don't have offices. Many students are passive and get ignored. So money's a problem? At the Sorbonne, which is a literary university and gets less funding than scientific ones do, our annual costs come...
...tougher stance on feeding did have an effect on prisoners' willingness to go on hunger strikes."A lot of detainees said, 'I don't want to put up with this. This is too much of a hassle,'" says Craddock. Asked whether the new methods represented an"effective deterrent" to hunger striking, he answered,"Yeah...
...succeeded in persuading school boards to remove junk food from hallways without resorting to lawsuits. A coalition of parents and teachers persuaded the Los Angeles Unified School District to ban soda sales in district schools beginning in 2004. In late August the school board will consider whether to set tougher nutrition standards for cafeteria menus and vending-machine snacks. In June the New York City Department of Education announced it would ban candy and soda from school vending machines and would reduce the fat content in cafeteria meals. Kelly Brownell, the director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight...