Anti-terror policies. “President Obama is facing new pressure to reverse himself and to ramp up investigations into the Bush-era security programs, despite the political risks.”
Sri Lanka. “Hundreds of thousands of Tamils remain locked in camps almost entirely off limits to journalists, human rights investigators and political leaders. The Sri Lankan government says that the people in the camps are a security risk because Tamil Tiger fighters are hiding among them.”
Soldier suicides. “Army commanders are failing at the day-to-day task of monitoring troubled young soldiers in their barracks back home, which is helping push suicides to record numbers, the head of the Army's suicide task force says.”
Quote of the day. “These neighborhoods with gang problems don’t have a lot of assets. But there is a school, a park and a rec center. Those are public assets. Let’s use those to create social connections that replace gangs.” Jeff Carr, Director of Gang Reduction and Youth Development in Los Angeles, on a program to combat gang violence by keeping lights on until midnight in some of the city’s roughest park. (New York Times)
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