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FOIC ruling to face challenge
by Aaron Bray This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the state Freedom of Information…
Author: Yale Daily News
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Project will help tackle crime
by A’EYSHA KASSIEM VIOLENT crime, a failing education system and the impact of HIV/Aids and TB are some of the “critical threats” facing South Africa, says the University of Cape Town’s newly-installed vice-chancellor Max Price. Price said he hopes to see UCT play a greater…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Appeals court in NYC will rehear torture case
Original Source by LARRY NEUMEISTER A federal appeals court will reconsider its decision to toss out a Canadian engineer’s lawsuit over torture he says he endured after being mistaken for an Islamic extremist. The move by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan…
Author: The Associated Press
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10th Anniversary - The Omagh Bombing - 'Public inquiry would help us all to move on'
“I won’t be long.” Those were the last words Michael Gallagher heard his son Aiden say as he left to buy jeans in Omagh on August 15, 1998. The 58-year-old has been very much the public voice and face of the bomb victims over the…
Author: Irish News
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US billionaire due to match CBRJ funding
Original Source By Barry McCaffrey An American billionaire yesterday announced that he is to match British government funding for community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) projects. Over the next three years American billionaire Chuck Feeney and the NIO will jointly provide £600,000 funding for community-based restorative justice…
Author: Irish News
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£600,000 for NI restorative justice schemes
Original Source Restorative justice schemes in Northern Ireland are to receive £600,000 over three years, the authorities said today. The funding package is a joint venture between the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and independent international charitable foundation the Atlantic Philanthropies. The programmes deal with people…
Author: The Irish Times
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Province sets new date for refugee reintegration
Original Source By Francis Hweshe The Western Cape government has acknowledged the fears expressed by some refugees over their reintegration, but says it willcontinue to work towards returning them to the communities from which they were displaced. During the xenophobic attacks in May, about 20,000…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)
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Will Employers Want Aging Boomers?
Less well-educated baby boomers who seek to work into their retirement years in the United States may need assistance from the government through policy changes, according to this report by the Urban Institute. Author(s): Gordon Mermin, Richard W. Johnson, Eric ToderPermanent Link: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411705 The nonpartisan Urban…
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Retired baby boomers can help with public service
Original Source BY PAUL ARFIN Paul Arfin is president of Intergenerational Strategies, which is a partner with Dowling College’s Center for Intergenerational Policy and Practice. As millions of baby boomers approach traditional retirement age, many experts are warning that such a massive workforce exodus could…
Author: New York Newsday
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Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors' Fees
Original Source By MILT FREUDENHEIM Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around the country. The idea is that by paying family physicians, internists and pediatricians to devote…
Author: The New York Times
