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Answering the question of how to make a business plan template begins by the realization that the first step is the creation of a rough draft, where you end up with a set of notes on each and every topic of the template. The next step is to work on these points and edit them to create a professional narrative that has a smooth flow. The purpose of creating the template is not to speed up the process of deriving the final business report but thinking about your business in an intelligent, smart and planning fashion. While going through the various facts and ideas, you gradually get involved in looking at ideas and business models in a more critical way. Though this process may initially appear to be a waste of time, the process of creating the template also has the power to prevent a poor decision that could prove to be a disaster in the long run, if not properly addressed upfront.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam appeared in a court on Thursday for the first time since his capture more than a year ago, Libya's public prosecutor's office said.
The son of the former Libyan leader was in court in the western town of Zintan, where he is being held by former rebels, to face charges related to a visit by an International Criminal Court (ICC) lawyer last year.
"He is charged with involvement with the ICC delegation which is accused of carrying papers and other things related to the security of the Libyan state," Taha Baara, spokesman for the prosecutor, told Reuters.
The ICC lawyer, Australian Melinda Taylor, was herself arrested and held for three weeks after the meeting and has since said her detention proved that Saif al-Islam could not receive a fair trial for war crimes and instead should be tried in The Hague.
Another ICC defence lawyer said the court hearing in Zintan - part of Libya where the Tripoli authorities have little sway - was designed to intimidate the international court.
"This is yet another disgraceful attempt by Libya to manipulate and intimidate the ICC," said Ben Emmerson, lawyer for Abdullah al-Senussi, Gadaffi's former spy chief and Saif al-Islam's co-accused.
"It is proof positive of the urgent and imperative need for the (U.N.) Security Council to impose sanctions on Libya for its flagrant, deliberate and grave violations of Security Council resolution 1970."
That resolution obliges Libya to cooperate with the court, lawyers say, and Tripoli's failure to hand over Saif al-Islam could result in it being reported to the Council.
Libya wants to prosecute him at home, where he might face the death penalty, rather than hand him to the ICC where he could only receive a jail sentence.
An ICC spokesperson said the court was not aware of the proceedings and declined to comment.
Libyan spokesman Baara said the Zintan tribunal would convene again on May 2.
"Investigations for trying him for war crimes are over and he will be put on trial for that at a later time," Baara told Reuters.
Libya has hired human rights lawyers to argue before ICC judges that it has the ability to give the pair a fair trial and should be allowed to do so.
It is up to the ICC to decide if this is the case, and Libya has pledged to abide by the ICC's decision, most recently stressing in a Tuesday filing that it had no immediate plans to proceed with a trial of the two men.
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I'm so pleased to have finally acquired a copy of this extremely rare issue of The Daily Telegraph Magazine. The cover girl is none other than Marianne Faithfull (just prior to the release of her 1968 film The Girl on a Motorcycle) striking a comic strip superhero pose, in which she is depicted as Morgan Le Faythful. The cover image was designed as a poster for the supplement by British pop artist Peter Blake, who took his inspiration for Marianne's character from the Arthurian legend of Morgan Le Fay. Blake created the image by painting upon an enlargement of a photograph by Hans Feurer and was assisted on the project by his wife, the artist Jann Haworth, who made the dragon and decorated it in fairground colours, she also created the sorceress costume that Marianne is wearing. The finished result which measured 20'' x 30'' was issued for sale through the magazine via mail order for the bargain price of 3s 6d. in April of 1968. Where are they all now I wonder ?
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Though he is not especially funny, Rudy Giuliani likes to begin with a joke. "Did you know that I'm running for President of the United States?" he asked at a recent house party in Windham, New Hampshire. "Did I tell you that?" His hosts, Al and Patti Letizio, and their friends cheered. "I'm running because I believe that the country needs strong leadership for the future."
Giuliani advised the Letizios and their neighbors to look at what he calls his Twelve Commitments. In June, also in New Hampshire, he had laid out these commitments, which range from "I will keep America on offense in the Terrorists' War on Us" (No. 1) to "I will expand America's involvement in the global economy and strengthen our reputation around the world" (No. 12). Giuliani carries the list on a laminated card the size of a driver's license; he says that he will keep the card on his desk in the Oval Office.
"The goals that we have, they're big goals," he said. "They're very difficult things to do. They're very difficult things to accomplish. And they're things, quite frankly, that America in the past hasn't been able to accomplish.
"There are some people who believe that this country is declining," he went on. "There are some people who believe that we're going in the wrong direction. Well, you know something? They're wrong! And we can make them wrong, by making the right choices. By making the right choices about our leadership. Because this is about leadership."
After a while, it was time for questions. The first came from a man in a Patriots sweatshirt, which led Giuliani to muse about his own favorite team, the Giants, which in turn led the man to rib him about the Yankees. The second came from a woman who wanted to know more about Commitment No. 6, which deals with energy. How, she asked, did Giuliani plan to make the country "energy independent"?
"This is where we really need a leader," he told her. "We need somebody who can do the impossible. Now, I say that because I did this a lot in New York."
Depending on whether you count his abortive race for the U.S. Senate in 2000, this is either Giuliani's fourth or his fifth political campaign. In the earlier races, his goal was to persuade New Yorkers to vote for a Republican; this time around, it's to persuade Republicans to vote for a New Yorker. Gone are the "Godfather" imitations, the snapping at the press, and the praise for immigration ("the single most important reason for American greatness"). The candidate who stopped by the Letizios', and before that had coffee at Suzie's Diner, in Hudson, and before that went on a holiday stroll in Nashua, where he waited in line to buy a Christmas ornament of a moose, is a less ethnic, less impatient, and more conservative candidate than voters in Brooklyn and the Bronx ever knew. This Giuliani invokes Ronald Reagan, smiles—or tries to—at children, and pledges to "secure our borders and identify every non-citizen in the nation."
And yet the logic of his new campaign is—mutatis mutandis—the same as that of the old. Once again, Giuliani is in the awkward situation of wanting to represent a group of people whose views he does not actually represent. Once again, appeals based on "values" or personal history are closed to him. (Fourteen years ago—before he had appeared in drag, or ditched his second wife on TV, or met his third wife at a cigar bar—a "vulnerability study" commissioned by his staff noted that Giuliani's "personal life raises questions about a 'weirdness factor.' ") And so, once again, Giuliani is left to campaign on the basis of a single, strongly held idea: a great-leader theory of history, in which the great leader happens to be himself.
Mayors of New York have often seen themselves as singularly suited for higher office. "It's the second-toughest job in America!" according to John Lindsay's famous slogan. Giuliani likes to say that having run the city "is about as good a preparation for being President as exists"—an assessment that, not surprisingly, is much the same as the one offered by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has flirted with running as an Independent. (In 2000, when Bill Clinton was rumored to be thinking of entering the New York mayoral race, his press secretary inverted Lindsay's formula, observing that the President "already has the second-toughest job in American politics—why would he want the toughest?")
Yet what seems self-evident to New York mayors has rarely seemed that way to voters. The last mayor to make it even as far as Albany was John T. Hoffman, who, with the help of Boss Tweed, became governor in 1869. (Briefly, Mayor William J. Gaynor seemed headed for state or national office, but he died in 1913, before his prospects could be tested.) During Lindsay's Presidential run, in 1972, he thought that the support of retired New Yorkers living in Florida would help him win that state's primary, and thus the Democratic nomination; instead, he finished fifth out of seven, and dropped out of the race shortly thereafter. Ronald Reagan, then the governor of California, reportedly turned the mayoralty-is-the-second-toughest-job slogan against Lindsay, saying, "It probably is, the way he does it."
Giuliani filed his "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission on February 5, 2007, and nine days later told Larry King, "Yes, I'm running." (He never delivered a formal announcement speech.) The field he entered was a jumble. John McCain, thanks to his moderate stand on immigration, had alienated much of the Republican Party's base. Mitt Romney hadn't figured out how, as a Mormon, to appeal to evangelical Christians. Mike Huckabee had figured out how to appeal to evangelical Christians, but (or perhaps because) he didn't believe in evolution. ("If you want to believe that you and your family came from apes, that's fine," Huckabee said after an early debate. "I'll accept that. I just don't happen to think that I did.")
Giuliani's campaign got off to a bumpy start; a lengthy internal campaign memo, citing potentially "insurmountable" personal and political vulnerabilities, was leaked to the News. The campaign righted itself—Giuliani led the Republican field in second- and third-quarter fund-raising—only to run into trouble again. In November came the indictment of his former police commissioner Bernard Kerik, on sixteen counts of fraud, tax evasion, and making false statements. That was followed by the revelation that Giuliani's consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, had done business with, among others, the son of a Macao gambling tycoon reputed to have ties to Chinese organized crime, and the news that some of the security expenses for his then-mistress-now-wife, Judith Nathan, were initially billed to obscure New York City agencies, like the Office for People with Disabilities. (Giuliani has said that the billing was done this way to speed up payments, a claim that several current and former city officials told me they found implausible.) In recent weeks, Giuliani's numbers in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina have been sinking, and his once comfortable lead in the national polls has vanished. It now seems possible that he will emerge from the first three major contests with three third-place finishes, or worse.
In a normal primary season—if such a thing can be said to exist—losing all the early contests would almost certainly end a candidacy. It is the Giuliani camp's stated belief that this will not be a normal season. California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey have moved up their primaries to February 5th, or "super-duper Tuesday," as it has become known. Florida has moved up its primary even farther, to January 29th. Until a few weeks ago, Giuliani enjoyed a wide lead in the polls in Florida, and while all the other candidates have been camped out in Sioux City and Manchester he has been spending an unusual amount of time in places like Tampa. "Our strategy from the beginning has been an eight-, nine-inning game," Giuliani recently told reporters. "I call it a proportionate strategy." A presentation prepared for Giuliani volunteers, which was obtained by the Washington Post, declares, "Florida is the firewall," and offers a list of "key coalitions" for the former mayor in the state; these include Italian-Americans, first responders, and—shades of John Lindsay—transplanted Northeasterners.
In January of 2001, Giuliani signed, for a reported $2.7 million, a two-book deal with Talk Miramax Books. The first book, according to Publishers Weekly, was to be a memoir that would "deal frankly" with Giuliani's family background, his career, and "his struggles between wife and lover." One can only imagine what such a memoir would have related, because so far the only book to appear, "Leadership," is the one that was supposed to come second.
"Leadership" is written in the style of a self-help guide for those with superior judgment. "Accept that maybe you really do know better and can see a little further down the road than others," Giuliani writes. Like most books by politicians, it is self-protective and, precisely because of that, self-revealing. Its chapters are headed by organizational maxims, like "Prepare Relentlessly" and "Be Your Own Man," and mix truisms ("Leaders must find a balance between speed and deliberation") with anecdotes that illustrate how Giuliani put the principle into practice. In the chapter titled "Reflect, Then Decide," Giuliani relates at length how he chose a course of treatment for his prostate cancer—he opted for radiation seed implants and external radiation—and also how he chose the physician to implant the seeds. (The doctor's method reminded him of innovations in crime-fighting.) In the chapter titled "First Things First," he tells how he got rid of the squeegee men. (It turned out that many of them had outstanding warrants.) And in "Surround Yourself with Great People" Giuliani describes the process by which, in August, 2000, he picked Kerik to be the city's fortieth police commissioner.
The obvious candidate for the job was the Police Department's highest-ranking uniformed officer, Joe Dunne. In Giuliani's words, Dunne was a "cop's cop," and he was being recommended by the outgoing commissioner, Howard Safir, and by many of the Mayor's other advisers. But Giuliani was torn. During the 1993 mayoral campaign, Kerik, a detective, had volunteered to drive him around the city on weekends, and Giuliani had subsequently made him commissioner of the Corrections Department. Although Kerik lacked some obvious credentials for the position of police commissioner—among them a college degree—Giuliani decided that he would be the better choice. "The reasons I picked Bernie are complicated, and boil down to factors of chemistry and feel," he writes. "As I told Joe, if I had known him as long as I'd known Bernie, it could easily have been him." (A few days before Kerik was indicted, Giuliani told the Associated Press, "There were mistakes made," but he suggested that these, too, should be counted in his favor: "Anybody running for President that hasn't made their share of mistakes is probably not ready to be President.")
Many, perhaps most, politicians probably value competence and probity somewhat less than devotion. What's unusual about Giuliani is how little effort he makes to disguise this. Take, for example, the story of his Taxi and Limousine commissioner Christopher Lynn, which Giuliani invokes in the chapter titled "Loyalty: The Vital Virtue." One day, Lynn, because his boyfriend had complained to him about a cabdriver's behavior, personally suspended the driver's taxi license. His action—and his subsequent insistence that he had not violated the commission's rules when evidently he had—became a running story in the News, prompting several aides to advise Giuliani to get rid of Lynn. Instead, the Mayor promoted him to transportation commissioner: "I wasn't going to let any newspaper choose my administration." (In his new job, Lynn made more news, for a variety of additional scandalettes, and in 2000 he was forced to withdraw his name from consideration as the District of Columbia's taxicab chief.) In the same chapter, Giuliani explains how he picked Robert Harding to be the city's budget director. Harding's father, Raymond, the longtime chairman of the New York State Liberal Party, had secured for Giuliani the Liberal Party ballot line, which he ran on three times. Giuliani writes that he "knew there'd be heat" for what could appear to be a patronage hire. But, he goes on, "I wasn't going to choose a lesser candidate simply to quiet critics." This self-praise is particularly noteworthy, since Giuliani also appointed a second Harding son, Russell, to lead the New York City Housing Development Corporation. Russell, a college dropout with no experience in the housing field, embezzled more than four hundred thousand dollars from the agency, and was eventually sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Meanwhile, some of the most talented people Giuliani brought to New York get scant mention in "Leadership," perhaps because by the time he wrote the book he was no longer speaking to them. In 1995, Giuliani forced out the city's schools chancellor, Ramon Cortines, after first subjecting him to a series of humiliations. The next schools chancellor, Rudy Crew, became a close friend of the Mayor's, smoking cigars and going to Yankees games with him. But Crew, too, ran afoul of Giuliani—he refused to endorse school vouchers, a measure that Giuliani, after years of opposing, had suddenly decided to support—and he, too, was hounded out. ("It's tragic how wounded this man really is," Crew later said of Giuliani. "And wounded people inevitably wound other people.") Giuliani briefly alludes to the falling out he had with his first and most innovative police commissioner, William Bratton, only to argue that "had there been no change atop the Police Department, we would not have achieved the reductions in crime that we did." (Bratton, who is now the Los Angeles police chief, told me he found that "a very strange assertion," since at the time of his departure the decline in the crime rate was accelerating.)
During Giuliani's early years in office, his achievements were impressive. Between 1993 and 1996, the city's murder rate fell by forty-four per cent, the number of people on welfare dropped by nearly twenty per cent—the first significant decrease in the city's history—and the Mayor succeeded in closing a $2.3-billion budget gap with a series of nearly no-growth spending plans. (As his tenure wore on, he became more freehanded, and ultimately he left Bloomberg a gap of nearly five billion dollars.)
But, even as Giuliani was coasting to a second term, the circle around him was growing narrower, and the few dissenting voices fewer. Bratton recalled that after a while he couldn't even make a promotion without consulting City Hall. "A leader like Giuliani will end up having around him people who are comfortable being micromanaged," he told me. Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, who served as commissioner of the city's Human Resources Administration under Giuliani, has described the dynamic among the Mayor's top aides—the so-called "yes-Rudy's"—this way: "If Rudy would say, 'Let's kill twelve-year-olds,' there would be a deep silence in the room and then somebody would say, 'That's brilliant! ' And then somebody else would say, 'Have you thought of thirteen-year-olds, too?' " Dissent from outside the administration was tolerated little better; elected officials judged to be less than fully supportive of the Mayor found themselves unable to get the most basic information from City Hall. In 1997, for instance, Giuliani decided to deny the state comptroller, H. Carl McCall, access to the city's books. McCall took Giuliani to court, and won. Giuliani appealed, and McCall won again. The case went to the state's highest court, and McCall won a third time. "The bottom line is we had to spend two years and millions of dollars in taxpayer money just to do our jobs," McCall told me.
Giuliani fought similar, losing battles with the Independent Budget Office, the city's campaign-finance board, and New York's major newspapers. He tried to change the rules of mayoral succession to bypass the public advocate, Mark Green, whom he particularly loathed. He lost that battle, too. After Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean immigrant, was killed by plainclothes policemen, in February, 1999, some of New York's top-ranking black officials, including McCall, asked to meet with Giuliani. Giuliani refused. The following month, former mayor Ed Koch was briefly hospitalized. Koch, who had crossed party lines to endorse Giuliani over David Dinkins, recently recalled the day that Giuliani came to visit him.
"I sat up in bed, and asked him, 'Why won't you meet with them?' " Koch told me. "And he said, 'I don't agree with them.' And I said, "Rudy, you only meet with people you agree with? That's crazy!' " Koch went on, "Rudy was a good mayor in the sense of delivering services. I have always said that. He was not a great mayor, because he didn't respect people."
When news got out that Giuliani was building a new emergency command center at 7 World Trade Center, the City Council speaker, Peter Vallone, joked that if the Mayor needed space only for those people he trusted he could put the center in "a phone booth."
Around the time that Giuliani travelled to New Hampshire to make his case to the Letizios and their neighbors, members of the 9/11 Firefighters and Families travelled to New Hampshire to try to undermine it. The group, which consists of relatives of some of the people who died in the World Trade Center attack, rented a basement room at Dartmouth College, and sent out invitations to the local press. A half dozen reporters showed up, along with some firefighters from nearby companies and a few curious members of the Dartmouth staff. The first person to speak was Sally Regenhard, who carried a photograph of her son, Christian, a probationary firefighter who had been on the job for just six months at the time of the disaster.
"He was a person who loved life," Regenhard said, her voice breaking. "He loved his country. On 9/11, his dreams, and our dreams for him, ended. After 9/11, we started to find out about why my son and other firefighters met a brutal and needless death. We started to find out about things like the radios and the lack of unified command structure. We were shocked. We were heartbroken. But we were very determined that our children, our loved ones, had to have a legacy. And that had to be a legacy of truth.
"Our group does not endorse any political candidate," she went on. "Our group represents registered Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, and Right to Life Party members. We're here because we need to point out the mistakes that occurred in New York City on 9/11, because we want people to know the truth about Rudy Giuliani running for President on a false hero issue."
September 11th is obviously at the heart of Giuliani's candidacy, so much so that his campaign would hardly be conceivable without it. Tens of millions—probably hundreds of millions—of Americans saw the images of him walking through clouds of dust that morning, and heard him reassuring the city, "New York is going to be here tomorrow morning, and it's going to be here forever." His handling of the disaster turned him from a not terribly popular lame duck into, in Oprah's famous formula, "America's Mayor."
But many of those who are most knowledgeable about what happened on September 11th, or at least had the most at stake, are actively opposing Giuliani's bid. The head of the city's largest police union recently declared that his organization "could never support Rudy Giuliani for any elected office," and the head of the city's largest firefighters' union has similarly made it known that his union, which three years ago endorsed George Bush, will not be endorsing Giuliani. "Rudy Giuliani is not the individual he portrays himself to be," John McDonnell, the head of the city's fire officers' union, which is also working against the former mayor, told me. The 9/11 Commission has five Republican members, only one of whom is supporting Giuliani. (Three have declared for John McCain and the fifth has remained neutral.) Meanwhile, the man who set up the city's Office of Emergency Management for Giuliani, Jerome Hauer, is supporting Hillary Clinton.
"From my perspective, Rudy would be a very dangerous President," Hauer told me. "And I think people need to be very frightened of him. When you look at the way he picked battles unnecessarily as mayor, imagine if he's got nuclear weapons at his disposal.
"He's certainly got one of the weakest homeland-security advisory groups you can imagine," Hauer continued. Among the group's members are Thomas Von Essen, Giuliani's former fire commissioner, and Richard Sheirer, Hauer's successor as head of the Office of Emergency Management; both men have been faulted for failing to establish clear lines of command on September 11th, and both now work for Giuliani Partners. "If that's who he's going to depend on to keep this country secure, this country's in very serious trouble." (The Giuliani campaign's spokeswoman, Maria Comella, pointed out that the advisory group also includes Louis Freeh, the former F.B.I. director, and said, "Anything from Mr. Hauer on this is nothing more than sour grapes.")
As Giuliani often observes, September 11th was not the first time that terrorists struck at America. The World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993, which killed six and forced the evacuation of twenty-five thousand others, demonstrated the city's vulnerability. As mayor, Giuliani made preparedness a priority, hiring Hauer to head the Office of Emergency Management and building a state-of-the-art command center for use during crises (albeit in a known terrorist target).
And yet critics argue that, in crucial respects, the city had made little progress by the time of the second World Trade Center attack. The so-called "handie-talkies" that firefighters relied on to communicate with one another proved so inadequate on the day of the 1993 bombing that firefighters had to resort to using foot messengers. It was not until 1997 that the Fire Department started the process of procuring new radios, and it was not until early 2001 that the radios were issued. Within days, the new radios were recalled. (An investigation by the City Council subsequently revealed that the department, in its testing of the radios, had violated its own protocols.) As a result, firefighters who rushed to the World Trade Center on September 11th were carrying the same handie-talkies that had failed them eight years earlier.
It is impossible to say how many firefighters' deaths might have been prevented had they had better communications. Still, the numbers are suggestive. The Fire Department is believed to have lost at least a hundred and twenty men in the collapse of the second building—the North Tower—even though the command for them to evacuate had been issued half an hour earlier. The Police Department, which had a different and, under the circumstances, far more effective radio system, is believed to have lost no members in the North Tower. The 9/11 Commission concluded that most fire companies in the North Tower had received the message to get out, either over their handie-talkies or by word of mouth. (One fire chief in the building, who was carrying a bullhorn, went from floor to floor yelling, "All F.D.N.Y., get the fuck out!") But the Times, which successfully sued the city to obtain transcripts of interviews that the Fire Department conducted with survivors, reached a grimmer conclusion: it found that, of fifty-eight firefighters who made it out of the North Tower, only three had heard radio warnings that the tower was in danger of collapse. Particularly galling to many families is that Giuliani has yet to acknowledge that there were failures that might have been avoided. Testifying before the 9/11 Commission, in May, 2004, he praised firefighters for electing "to stand their ground and not retreat," implying that they had heard the evacuation order but chose to ignore it.
"It's like a knife in our hearts," Sally Regenhard told me. "As if we didn't have enough already."
A few weeks ago, Giuliani held a town hall meeting at V.F.W. Post 1670, in Laconia, New Hampshire. The meeting took place in a large wood-panelled room with placards listing rules for bingo, among them Rule No. 5: "Special cards for the handicapped are not available." Giuliani once again began by recommending that everyone in the audience read his Twelve Commitments. Then he launched into a riff on leadership which turned into a discussion of foreign policy.
"Leadership is about hope," he said. "It's about people believing they're going to have a better future. And if they believe they're going to have a better future they get it done." When he became mayor, he said, "The conclusion was that things were going to get worse. And, by the time I left, the overwhelming conclusion was that things were going to get better, because all these problems had been solved that other people thought couldn't be solved.
"It's the same thing now—people think that the war on terror is going to go on forever," Giuliani continued. "The reality is when we get the right leadership, when we deal with it from the point of view of being on offense, we can reduce that terrorists' war against us to the minimum amount of time, and the minimum amount of casualties. But we do it through strength, not weakness." He added, "I'd be happy to talk to you about it, because it's an area in which I've done a great deal of study and an area in which—safety and security—I think of all the people running I have the most experience."
There are several candidates in the Republican field who are short on foreign-policy experience, including Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. Giuliani is the only one of them who is running as a foreign-policy expert. When, in October, Giuliani was accused by Senator Joseph Biden, Democrat of Delaware, of knowing "virtually nothing" about foreign affairs, he shot back that it was actually Biden, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, whose background was thin. ("Has he ever been in the State Department?" the former mayor asked. "Has he ever been an executive?") What, exactly, Giuliani sees as the basis of his expertise is unclear. He declined a chance to serve on the congressionally appointed Iraq Study Group, citing "previous time commitments." As of this writing, he has never visited Iraq. Sometimes he suggests that he is drawing on years of careful study; just as often, on his tenure as mayor. A few months ago, in response to a question about elections in Gaza, he observed that he knew firsthand how tough it can be to introduce democracy.
"I learned this in New York City when I became the mayor," he said. "People were afraid to go out at night, because crime was so rampant. I mean, we had all kinds of civil rights, but nobody could exercise them, because they were too darn afraid to go out, too darn afraid to go to the movies or go buy groceries at the grocery store." Giuliani has taken the point further: the principles that he applied successfully in Bed-Stuy can be applied just as successfully in Baghdad. "I know from personal experience that when security is reliably established in a troubled part of a city, normal life rapidly reestablishes itself," he wrote recently in Foreign Affairs. He went on:
Shops open, people move back in, children start playing ball on the sidewalks again, and soon a decent and law-abiding community returns to life. The same is true in world affairs. Disorder in the world's bad neighborhoods tends to spread. Tolerating bad behavior breeds more bad behavior.
In his first mayoral campaign, Giuliani said that crime in New York was not going to be solved by "talking unity" and "singing songs." He now says, "You don't achieve peace by singing songs about peace."
"You know what our goal should be in Iraq?" he asks. "How about this as a goal? How about victory for the United States?"
Presidential candidates are, of course, full of bluster, and a rational voter might well dismiss Giuliani's more exaggerated claims—about himself, about New York, and about the world at large—as so much posturing. But that would probably be unfair. For all the reasons that he mentions—the fall in crime, the drop in the welfare rolls, the general change of mood in the city—Giuliani was an unusually accomplished mayor. What made him remarkable was that he didn't settle for these achievements. In addition to muggers and drug dealers, he eventually went after cabdrivers, jaywalkers, hot-dog venders, street artists, museum curators, strippers, and people who were just insufficiently civil—in short, practically everyone in New York. The same mayor who urged calm on September 11th two weeks later sought—unsuccessfully—to declare a sort of municipal state of emergency in order to extend his term in office.
Among the distinctive characteristics of Giuliani's political life has always been his scorn for conventional thinking. He may genuinely believe that before he took office New Yorkers were too terrified to exercise their civil rights. He may also believe that eight years in City Hall constitute foreign-policy experience. He may even believe that he can eliminate global disorder, in the same way that he got rid of the squeegee guys. And that may be, in the end, what makes him a leader. ♦


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Health information technology (HIT) offers great promise for improving the quality of care, including reducing medical errors and lowering administrative costs. But that promise will be fulfilled only when health systems, doctors, pharmacists, and health plans share data.
"We believe in the sharing of information across plans and health systems, so doctors and hospitals are able to access all the historical information they need to properly and effectively treat their patients, and that is the potential of health information technology," says Alan Abramson, PhD, chief information officer at HealthPartners in Minneapolis. "But the going is slow. There are many obstacles to overcome, including privacy and funding."
Known as health information exchanges (HIEs) or regional health information organizations (RHIOs), government-run and private agencies are developing primarily at the state level to share patient-level health information across organizational lines. Three fourths of the states are at some stage of developing HIEs, and last year's federal stimulus bill allocated hundreds of millions of dollars for them.
"Without HIEs, EHRs [electronic health records] are simply digitized filing cabinets," stated the Department of Health and Human Services when it recently detailed "meaningful use" criteria that EHRs must meet to qualify for stimulus money. "Furthermore, given the proposed definition of meaningful use, HIEs can use EHRs in such a way that the goals of this incentive program are met."
HHS does not stipulate exactly how HIEs are meant to work or how they will overcome the many hurdles slowing their development.
"We are making progress in the application of information technology to the delivery and financing of health care," says David S. Szabo, a partner at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP in Boston. He is co-chair of the firm's health care group and wrote a study for America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) titled "Privacy and Security Issues in a Nationwide Health Information Network."
"These health information exchanges can make our health care system safer, more convenient, and more efficient, and open a new era in health services and clinical research. But privacy and other concerns remain and affect the speed of adoption of these exchanges," says Szabo.
He adds that the ultimate goal of health information technology is development of a secure, standards-based exchange of health information, a nationwide health information network (NHIN). "There is no currently accepted definition of an NHIN. Generally, it refers to electronic and physical infrastructure, including the entities, systems, standards, and processes involved in the exchange of health information," wrote Szabo. "Appropriate protection of the privacy and security of health information is a core building block of the NHIN and is essential to the public's acceptance of new uses of health information technology. Government, as well as the private sector, has key roles to play in the development and enforcement of privacy regulations that are the foundation of public trust."
"The private sector does have a role to play in the utilization of health information technology to its fullest benefit," agrees Dan Greden, Aetna's head of information technology product management. "Eventually interconnectivity will be a powerful way to serve the consumer."
Aetna is helping lead the way on efforts to cross organizational lines in the sharing of health care information. The insurer, along with a few other regional and national plans, started a project in late 2009 in Ohio that allows about 700 medical practices to use a single Web site for access to insurance information about their patients.
"This pilot is a great example of the industry's commitment to voluntarily eliminate the administrative hassles that physicians face," said Ronald Williams, the chief executive of Aetna, in a public statement.
In early February, AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue & Shield Association announced a similar pilot program in New Jersey. Five of the state's largest private insurers plan to offer doctors and hospitals the ability to use a single Web portal to check a patient's coverage and track claims, regardless of which of those five health plans he is enrolled in.
AHIP officials stated that the reason for the pilot program is that hospitals and doctors spend enormous amounts of money trying to determine whether a patient has coverage or why a claim was denied — perhaps tens of billions of dollars a year.
A true HIE program covers more than claims, although such data are invaluable. It also includes lab and medication histories, and even individual data. That is what causes privacy and HIPAA concerns, of course. And how to manage that problem is just one hurdle.
The truth is that the health care industry is still in the infancy of HIE development, although some state initiatives have been in place for nearly a decade. The terms RHIO and HIE are often used interchangeably, according to the Heath Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), which held a national conference in Atlanta the first week of March. RHIOs are defined by HIMSS as "a group of organizations with a business stake in improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care delivery," and that definition includes health plans.
The concept of a national health information network was proposed by David Brailer, MD, five years ago, when he headed the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, originated by the Bush administration. In public statements made at the time, Brailer said that to build a national network of interoperable health records, the effort must first develop at the local and state levels.
Barry Chaiken, MD, chair of the HIMSS board of directors, told the 26,000 attendees at the HIMSS 2010 annual conference and exhibition that "health care information technology is the instrument that will transform health care," and that "health care in many ways remained frozen in time" before the advent of health care information technology.
Chaiken praised recent efforts at the local, state, and federal level to improve health information technology, but other HIMSS officials have noted in recent public statements that "few organizations and systems have taken advantage of the full potential of the current state of the art in computer science and health informatics."
That is true of health plans, which are slow to involve themselves in HIE or even EHR initiatives.
A survey of HIE efforts by the eHealth Initiative, an umbrella group of about 160 organizations in Washington, D.C., that includes health systems, health information technology (HIT) vendors, and some health plans, found that as of 2009, only 19 of the nation's more than 1,300 health plans actively exchange data with organizations outside their own networks.
Four years ago, Rhode Island established a $20 million project to create an HIE. The project is contingent on contributions from other stakeholders, including health plans. The state will pay for public program populations, which will bring Rhode Island's cost to about $6 million, according to the State Alliance for e-Health report, "Accelerating Progress."
In 2007, Delaware made available $3 million to create the Delaware Health Information Network. Washington State has invested $4.4 million to create the Washington State Health Record Bank, a consumer-based data sharing initiative. New York has invested more than $100 million in grants to communities to develop the Statewide Health Information Network (SHIN-NY) and other HIE-related services — the single biggest HIE initiative at the state level.
Not all state and local initiatives have been successful. For example, an eight-year HIE effort in California's Santa Barbara County failed in 2006. According to a study of the Santa Barbara County care data exchange conducted by Robert Miller, a professor at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, the project failed — after only a few months of providing HIE data to stakeholders — because "participants found no value proposition in initial HIE services," and so withdrew their funding.
Miller said that had funding been stronger and the data of wider range and available to more potential stakeholders, such as more physician practices, "the value proposition would have been strengthened" and more investors found.
A HIMSS study of the barriers facing HIE supports Miller's findings. In a recent survey conducted by the organization that delineated these barriers, researchers found that the enthusiasm regarding HIE potential is "tempered by concerns regarding the best use of funds to ensure that each dollar spent goes toward improved quality of care."
HIMSS grouped the concerns facing potential stakeholders into six categories:
Competition: Potential participants told researchers that they "feared that competition for funding could cause states to work independently rather than cooperatively in developing plans for HIE," according to HIMSS survey.
Complexity: Many stated that the complexity of accomplishing the required tasks in the short time frames imposed by HITECH (the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) dampened their enthusiasm. Specifically, the act "severely under-appreciates the complexity to deploy EHRs, knit them together, and improve care delivery," according to the survey.
Fragmentation: The health care industry is already fragmented. The concern of respondents was that HITECH's multiple funding targets (national efforts, states, regions, sub-national organizations, loan programs, privacy and security efforts, and so on) create "a very real potential for the distribution of funds to be fragmented as well."
Waste: Without controls, there is "a significant potential for HITECH funds to be wasted or invested in a way that does not maximize their impact on HIE."
Confusion: Clear guidance on the definition of "meaningful use" has only recently been provided by HHS.
Workforce shortage: There exists a significant "shortage of trained health care personnel" to run both EMRs and HIE services.
These are a significant number of barriers, but stakeholders such as HealthPartners believe HIE is worth the effort. "We know that such initiatives are critical first steps," says Abramson, "and we intend to encourage HIT development across organizational lines."
A list of current HIE initiatives is at http://www.himss.org/rhio_connection/RHIO_Connection_Index_Listing.pdf
A list of studies of HIE programs and standards can be found at http://www.ahip.org/
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The Job Creation Act of 2010 reduced the Social Security tax component of the SE tax from 12.4% to 10.4%, for 2011 only. Therefore, the SE tax rate on the first $106,800 of 2011 net SE income is "only" 13.3% (10.4% for FICA and 2.9% for Medicare) versus the normal 15.3%. Since the temporary SE tax reduction only affects the first $106,800 of 2011 net SE income, the maximum amount that a farmer can save is $2,136 ($106,800 times 2%).
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Reading 3: Jefferson's Philosophy of Education
Thomas Jefferson was as interested in the curriculum of the university as the architecture. Other existing American universities were closely tied to religious institutions, since the main purpose of higher education was the instruction of church clergymen. Jefferson believed, instead, that the primary focus of the curriculum should be scientific knowledge. Keeping with Jefferson's views that religious instruction be kept separate from university studies, he included neither church nor chapel in his design. Instead, the library stood, physically and symbolically, at the center of the plan, housed in the Rotunda. Jefferson also developed a list of 7,000 books to be acquired to fill the library building he had created. This in itself was revolutionary because libraries were not important features of other institutions where learning was based on students' recitation of facts memorized from professors' lectures.
In contrast, Jefferson believed that students should draw their own conclusions from hearing lectures, reading books, observing nature, and conducting scientific experiments. For this reason, he instituted an innovative elective system at the University of Virginia, rather than a fixed curriculum. There were no required courses; the students were free to choose from the available offerings. Jefferson explained, "This institution of my native state, the hobby of my old age, will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind to explore and to expose every subject susceptible of its contemplation."1
In the 1818 Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia, Jefferson first described the purpose of primary and secondary education, which was to provide every citizen with the skills necessary to transact his own business and understand his civic rights and obligations. He then outlined the purpose of higher education, which he identified to be:
To form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend; To expound the principles and structure of government, ...and a sound spirit of legislation, which...shall leave us free to do whatever does not violate the equal rights of another; to harmonize and promote the interests of agriculture, manufactures and commerce...; to develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order; to enlighten them with mathematical and physical sciences, which advance the arts and administer to the health, the subsistence and comforts of human life; and, generally, to form them to habits of reflection and correct action, rendering them examples of virtue to others and of happiness within themselves. These are the objects of that higher grade of education, the benefits and blessings of which the Legislature now propose to provide for the good and ornament of their country....
The curriculum of the University directly affected its physical development, as described in this newspaper account, ghost written by Jefferson himself:
I rode to the grounds and was much pleased with their commanding position & prospect. A small mountain adjacent is included in their purchase, & is contemplated as a site for an astronomical observatory, and a very remarkable one it will certainly be. The whole purchase is of 200 acres which, besides an Observatory and building grounds, will afford a garden for the school of botany, and an experimental farm for that of agriculture.3
Unfortunately, Jefferson died before his plans for the botanical garden were carried out, and the experimental farm and agriculture school did not appear on the University landscape until 1870. Once again, Jefferson's ideas were far ahead of his time.
The buildings themselves were intended to serve as three dimensional lessons in architecture for the students, as Jefferson explained in a letter to William Thornton, the designer of the U.S. Capitol building, "These pavilions...shall be models of taste and good architecture, and a variety of appearance, no two alike, so as to serve as specimens for the architectural lectures."4 Jefferson considered "good architecture" to be those buildings which were based on classical models of Greek and Roman architecture. Although the buildings of the "Academical Village" were made of local materials, such as brick and wood, their design incorporated many classical features such as domes, columns, and "temple front" porticoes. These elements were the visual expression of Jefferson's democratic and republican political values.
Although he did not live to see the work completed, Jefferson was enormously proud of his contribution to Virginia's public university. When he wrote the epitaph for his grave marker, Jefferson omitted the fact that he had served two terms as President of the United States and instead recorded that he was: Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and the Father of the University of Virginia.
Questions for Reading 3
1. How was the importance of the library expressed in the physical form of the University design?
2. Are you surprised by any of the subjects listed in the proposed curriculum for the University of Virginia? Why or why not?
3. How did the University's academic program reflect Mr. Jefferson's goal of promoting "the illimitable freedom of the human mind"?
Reading 3 was compiled from Bernard Mayo, ed., Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American (Charlottesville, Va: The University Press of Virginia, 1942); Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson (New York: Penguin Books, 1975); and The Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.
1Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10 volumes, (New York, 1892-1899), 12:181.


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Simply put, humane education fosters empathy in individuals for all living beings on the earth. At PAWS, we offer a variety of programs that nurture the empathy inherent in every child. We teach them to appreciate, respect and help animals, whether companion, wild or farm.
Our programs include group and classroom visits, on-site programs at PAWS, and mentoring students working on special projects. Through these programs we inform young people about issues that animals face, and empower them to make a difference in their communities.
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Research supports the value of humane education. A 1997 study by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals found that over a 20-year period, a group of individuals who had abused animals as youths were five times more likely as the non-abusers to commit violent crimes, four times more likely to commit property crimes and three times more likely to have drug or disorderly conduct offenses. Read more about the connection between animal abuse and human violence.
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The success of the PAWS Kids Who Care education program
There is a critical need for humane education in the greater Seattle area, and the PAWS Kids Who Care program provides tangible benefits to the community. An opinion survey is administered to all children at the beginning and end of PAWS' most in-depth humane education program.
The survey has two goals. The first one is to discover the current knowledge base and opinions on various animal-related issues, which helps in preparation of following classes. The second one is to provide an evaluation tool, measuring the success of the goals of the program. Current opinion surveys have revealed marked attitudinal changes in key areas.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Harvard women's hockey team, coming off its first Ivy League title since 2009, welcomes Dartmouth to Bright Hockey Center this weekend for a best-of-three series in the ECAC quarterfinals. The first to two wins will advance to the ECAC semifinals, which will be hosted at the highest remaining seed.
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The game will be available to follow via live stats and live video. To access the respective pages, follow the links at the top. Also, follow@HarvardCrimson and @HarvardWHockey on Twitter for updates from the games. Live video streaming of all Crimson home games will be available by subscription through GoCrimson.com with the official voice of Harvard women's hockey, Eric Steckling, on the call.
The ECAC Playoffs (Conference Page)
Harvard will be the No. 3 seed in the ECAC playoffs, while Dartmouth has earned the No. 6 seed. Cornell, the league's champion, is the No. 1 seed and faces No. 8 Colgate, as No. 2 Clarkson plays No. 7 RPI and No. 5 St. Lawrence visits No. 4 Quinnipiac.
Scouting the Crimson
The Crimson (21-5-3, 17-3-2 ECAC) has relied on strong defensive play to get to 20 wins for the second consecutive year and eighth time in the last 11 seasons. Harvard's goaltending tandem of senior Laura Bellamy and freshman Emerance Maschmeyer has helped the Crimson to the second-ranked defense in the country, allowing only 1.17 goals per game. Bellamy is the NCAA's leader in goals-against average at 0.92, while Maschmeyer has won three games against ranked teams.
Offensively, Jillian Dempsey paces the Crimson with 42 points on 23 goals and 19 assists. Dempsey is ninth in the country in goals per game with 0.79. Lyndsey Fry, who has tallied 14 goals and 18 assists, is Harvard's second leading scorer.
Last Time Out (Recap | Box Score)
Yale kept it close with Harvard, despite the Crimson outshooting the Bulldogs, 38-12, but Harvard pulled away with a 3-1 victory at Bright Hockey Center Feb. 26. The Crimson needed a third-period goal from Kaitlin Spurling to close out Yale, which benefited from 35 saves from goaltender Jaimie Leonoff. The Crimson's Laura Bellamy countered with 11 saves in net. Mary Parker scored Harvard's initial goal and also tallied an empty-net score for the first mult-goal game of her career.
Scouting the Big Green (Team Page)
Dartmouth (16-8-5, 11-7-4 ECAC) has gone 4-1-1 since tying Harvard, 2-2, on Fox College Sports Feb. 1. The only games that the Big Green has not won down the final stretch of the season were a 0-0 tie with No. 1 seed Cornell and a 3-1 loss against No. 2 seed Clarkson. In its last outing, Dartmouth hammered St. Lawrence, 7-2, thanks to two goals apiece from senior Sasha Nanji and sophomore Karlee Odland. The Big Green's leading scorer, senior Reagan Fischer, also added one goal. Fischer has scored 15 times, one more than classmate Camille Dumais, and is tied with Dumais with 28 points.
In net, junior Lindsay Holdcroft owns a 15-7-5 record entering the weekend. She has a 91.6 save percentage and is allowing 2.01 goals per game.
Series History
Dartmouth holds a slight 41-37-3 advantage over Harvard in the all-time series between the two teams. In playoff meetings, the Big Green has won five games, compared to Harvard's four. Darmouth took the last playoff matchup, a 4-1 decision in the 2011 ECAC semifinals.
This Season vs. Dartmouth
Harvard is 1-0-1 against Dartmouth this season. The Crimson used three first-period goals to pull out in front of Dartmouth at Bright Hockey Center Nov. 30, en route to a 6-0 win (highlights), and tied the Big Green, 2-2 (highlights), on Fox College Sports Atlantic Feb. 1. Jillian Dempsey has five points on two goals and three assists versus Dartmouth this season, while Lyndsey Fry has two goals and two assists.
The Playoffs vs. Dartmouth
Harvard and Dartmouth have met nine times in playoff scenarios with the Big Green holding a 5-4 advantage. The last time the two teams met after the regular season was the 2011 ECAC semifinals when Dartmouth took a 4-1 decision.
White the Bright Rescheduled for Saturday
Harvard's first ever "White the Bright" game, which was originally scheduled to be played Feb. 8 versus Yale, was postponed due to Winter Storm Nemo. The promotion has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 2 at 2 p.m.
The Ivy Title (Conference Page)
The Crimson claimed a share of its first Ivy League title since 2009, and 11th overall, with a 3-1 win over Yale Feb. 26. Harvard celebrated the championship, which is shared with Cornell, on the ice after the game, as the seniors lifted the trophy for the first time since arriving in Cambridge. This year marked just the second shared crown since play began in 1975-76. "It's a great thing for us," said Katey Stone. Women's Ice Hockey, on the Ivy championship. "It's nice to be able to have that for the seniors and everybody else involved with the program."
A Total Of 20
Harvard has hit the 20-win mark for the second straight year. The Crimson has won 20 games in eight of the last 11 seasons and owns 11, 20-win seasons overall. All of the program's 20-win years have come under Katey Stone.
Winning Seasons
Harvard has clinched its 15th consecutive season with a record of .500 or better and could surpass its win total from last year this weekend. Last year, Harvard completed its 14th consecutive winning season with a 22-9-1 campaign. The Crimson earned the ECAC's No. 2 seed and advanced to the tournament's semifinals before falling to St. Lawrence, 2-1 in overtime.
One of the Greats
Katey Stone is one win away from 400 for her career, all at Harvard. She will be one of six coaches in all of NCAA Division I hockey (men's or women's) to win 400 games at one school over the last 20 years.
1. Red Berenson, Michigan – 561
2. Jerry York, BC – 465
3. Jack Parker, BU – 460
4. Richard Umile, UNH – 454
5. George Gwozdehy, Denver – 439
6. Katey Stone, Harvard – 399
Up Next
The winner of the Harvard/Dartmouth series will advance the ECAC semifinals. The highest remaining seed in the tournament will host the last four ECAC teams standing.


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Joel McHale does not recommend eating an entire bowl of wasabi.
When he did it on a dare — not as a kid, but in his late 30s, mind you — he somehow managed to keep it down. But just barely, he tells omg! in an interview.
This summer, the comedian is hanging out with '80s and '90s stars including "Fresh Prince of Bel Air's" Alfonso Ribeiro, as the celebs take on dares that Twitter users have suggested as part of the Klondike Celebrity Challenge.
However, the "Community" star will definitely be better dressed on his throwback adventures than he was in the actual days of the Carlton Dance, when he was decked out in the uber-cool Mecca jeans and Kurt Cobain-inspired gear.
"I grew up in Seattle in the '90s," McHale explains. "[But] I'm a big dorky white guy. So my grunge outfits were not the greatest. I was into it, but people were like 'meh, ok." Being in Seattle, there was also a lot of plaid."
McHale, who's since become a sitcom star and host of the E! clip show "The Soup," is very into wardrobe. No, seriously.
"I was very lucky being cast as Jeff Winger [on 'Community'], because I do love clothes," says McHale, referring to the former lawyer he plays on his NBC show. "He's very fashionable, but I guess I'm told that too on the red carpet, where I'll wear something more fashion forward."
"I would say our styles are similar," he shares. "The biggest difference between me and Jeff is our skin tone, because he spray tans. And Sabrina Rosen, who is the costumer on 'Community' has great taste. I'm always very happy with what she chooses, and she's tremendous. And Jose Camilo, he is the E! stylist and he picks out all my suits. I get very concerned about them, and he's got impeccable taste."
Of course, McHale wears shirts more often than his character Jeff, who's been known to show off his fit physique.
"I've stayed in better shape over the last few years because Jeff Winger is a guy who is very vain. I had to take my shirt off a lot of times. So that's what I call the new diet that I've created," McHale jokes. "it's called the 'You're going to be naked on camera in two weeks, and you'd better get in shape for it.'"
Now, the actor is bulking up for a horror movie called "Beware the Night," which is directed by Scott Derrickson, whose credits include family un-friendly flicks such as "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" and challenging McHale to eat that wasabi.
"For the first time in a long time, I'm going to the gym all the time," the 41-year-old says. "Every day … I feel like I have to look a certain way, and the movie's with Eric Bana and he's in terrific shape, so I have to step it up."
McHale's movie, scheduled for 2015, is just one more job. He still plans to host "The Soup," where he often makes fun of Kim Kardashian (whose shows also air on E!) and other reality stars, whom he considers fair game for comedy.
"We try to do a couple things [with the show], which is — more so than anything — make people laugh, and second, we do kind of a social commentary on the state of television," says McHale, who's been married to . "Some reality shows are really sad and we don't want to pile on there. With the Kardashians, they're some of the most famous people in the world now. They are constantly in the spotlight, and so they will constantly be commented on. There are stories about them every day, even if it's not a story. And they love it. This is what they signed up for. They keep signing the contracts, so they want the publicity. It all feeds itself."
He'll also return for the fifth season of "Community," when series creator Dan Harmon will be back at the helm as showrunner after he was fired by the network and replaced last season. Harmon wrote on Twitter last month that McHale is to thank for bringing him back, but the actor refuses to take all the credit.
"It wasn't all me or anything," he insists. "Dan Harmon is the person that created that show. It all comes from his brain. I think the person to make that show is him. I am just glad that he wanted to do it, but huge credit needs to be given to NBC and to Sony working for him coming back. And for that I am deeply thankful to them. It was a group effort."
McHale will be back with Harmon and the Greendale Community College gang on "Community" later this year.
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BOSTON—Kieran Millan stopped 29 shots and Wade Megan scored two goals to lead No. 1 Boston University past the Harvard men's hockey team, 3-1, in the first semifinal of the 60th annual Beanpot tournament Monday night at TD Garden.
The Crimson (7-7-9), which snapped a six-game unbeaten streak, attempted six shots in the final two minutes but could not solve Millan, who registered three saves to preserve the two-goal lead. Harvard held a 10-6 edge in shots in the third period and a 30-25 advantage for the game as it sought its sixth come-from-behind win of the year.
Alex Killorn registered Harvard's lone goal in the second period, his team-leading 15th of the year, and was assisted on the play by Marshall Everson to pull the Crimson within 3-1. Matt Nieto gave BU (17-8-1) the lead just over eight minutes into the first period, and Megan followed with a pair of goals in the second for a 3-0 advantage.
The Crimson was 1 for 4 on power plays, while BU finished 1 for 5. Steve Michalek registered 14 saves, and Raphael Girard stopped the Terriers' final eight shots after entering late in the second period.
Colin Blackwell earned the first good chance of the game, but Millan stopped his shot on the rush and covered before the freshman could get to the rebound. Millan also stopped David Valek from in front of the right post, as the Crimson had four of the game's first six shots.
The Terriers' third shot was the game's first goal, as Nieto came down the right side and wrapped the puck around the left post. Harvard got a chance to tie with a power play, but BU survived and Millan stopped a close-in chance for Blackwell. The Crimson, in turn, killed a BU power play, with Dan Ford making a key recovery to deny a backdoor shot.
Harvard was forced to kill two more penalties during the period, but the best chances on those BU power plays came shorthanded from Killorn and Blackwell. Each team was credited with nine first-period shots.
The Crimson again started strong in the second period, registering three of the first four shots in the frame. A left-pad save by Millan on Killorn kept the score in the Terriers' favor, and they doubled the lead on their fourth power-play of the night, off the stick of Megan. The third goal came with six minutes left in the period, when Megan walked in from the left and scored with a backhand shot.
Harvard got one back by period's end, from Killorn on the power play at the 15:27 mark. Everson broke up a BU clearing attempt and centered to Killorn, who beat Millan with a shot to the blocker side. The Crimson could not convert a late four-on-three power play but outshot the Terriers, 11-10, in the period.
The Crimson controlled the play throughout the period, holding the Terriers to six shots. Harvard applied heavy pressure in the game's final five minutes of the third period, but Millan held strong to send his team to next week's championship game. Harvard will play in the consolation game, seeking its second straight third-place finish in Boston's tournament.


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In several incidents reminiscent of the previous year, the Maltese government in 2007 refused to rescue migrants stranded between Maltese and Libyan waters, leaving dozens clinging to fishing nets for days. A new right-wing political party with an anti-immigration platform emerged in June. Separately, journalists were harassed and injured during a protest by hunters in March.
After gaining independence from Britain in 1964, Malta joined the Commonwealth and became a republic in 1974. Power has alternated between the pro-Western Nationalist Party (PN) and the nonaligned, leftist Labor Party (MLP). In 1990, the PN government submitted Malta's application for full membership in the European Union (EU)—then the European Community. After a brief interlude of MLP rule from 1996 to 1998, Malta continued on a pro-EU path that culminated in a successful March 2003 referendum on accession. The country formally joined the EU in May 2004.
National elections in 2003 returned the incumbent PN to power with around 52 percent of the vote and 35 seats in the unicameral House of Representatives. The MLP placed second with about 48 percent of the vote and 30 seats. In March 2004, the House of Representatives elected Edward Fenech Adami, the outgoing prime minister and veteran PN leader, as president of the republic. Lawrence Gonzi, the deputy prime minister, took over the premiership.
In June 2007, the National Action party was formed as a right-wing alternative to the main two parties. It aimed to put pressure on other EU countries to absorb illegal immigrants so as to ease the burden on Malta, and called for a rule under which Malta would only hold detained immigrants for one month, allowing them to move on toward Europe on release. The party also sought to reform the electoral process and role of the president.
Malta had refused to rescue immigrants stranded in waters between Libya and Malta in 2006, and repeated its resistance in May and June 2007, leaving groups of migrants clutching for days to fishing boats in the Mediterranean. Malta claimed that the responsibility lay with Libya, and in one incident with Spain, since it was a Spanish boat that spotted the migrants in question. Malta has urged the EU to draft guidelines for handling such cases.
Malta is an electoral democracy. Members of the 65-seat unicameral legislature, the House of Representatives, are elected through proportional representation with a single-transferable-vote (STV) arrangement, allowing voters to rank-order competing candidates by preference. The parliament is elected for a five-year term, and lawmakers in turn elect the president, who also serves for five years. The president names the prime minister, usually the leader of the majority party or coalition. Elections are generally free and fair.
The ruling PN and opposition MLP dominate national politics. The smaller Democratic Alternative party also competes, but is not currently represented in the parliament.
The EU's 2003 monitoring report, which sought to determine whether candidate countries were adopting the union's body of law, criticized Malta for lacking a specific anticorruption program, which remained the case through 2007. Malta was ranked 33 out of 180 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index.
The constitution guarantees freedom of speech and of the press, though incitement to racial hatred is punishable by a jail term of six to eight months. There are several daily newspapers and weekly publications in Maltese and English, as well as radio and television stations. The islands also have access to Italian television. The government does not block internet access. In March 2007, hunters protesting EU restrictions attacked reporters attempting to cover the demonstration, damaging equipment and injuring several journalists.
The constitution establishes Roman Catholicism as the state religion, and the state grants subsidies only to Catholic schools. While the population is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, small communities of Muslims, Jews, and Protestants are tolerated and respected. There is one Muslim private school. Academic freedom is respected, and there is generally free and open discussion in the country.
The constitution provides for freedoms of assembly and association, and the government generally respects these rights. Nongovernmental organizations investigating human rights issues are able to operate without state interference. The law recognizes the right to form and join trade unions, and limits on the right to strike were eased in 2002. However, a compulsory arbitration clause in the country's Employment and Industrial Relations Act allows the government to force a settlement on striking workers, contravening the International Labor Organization's Convention 87. The clause is reportedly used only when all other channels for arbitration have been exhausted. In 2005, the government froze the assets of the General Workers' Union (GWU) following a dispute between the GWU and a government-owned shipyard.
The judiciary is independent, and the rule of law prevails in civil and criminal matters. The Police Ordinance Act, which took effect in 2003, provided a number of reform measures, including the establishment of a witness protection program and a mechanism for handling complaints directed toward the police. Prison conditions generally meet international standards, although the Council of Europe's Commission for Human Rights has objected to detention conditions for irregular migrants and asylum seekers. An independent report on the military's violent January 2005 suppression of a protest by detained immigrants raised concerns about the use of excessive force, recommending an internal military inquiry and better training for soldiers.
According to the 2007 Migrant Integration Policy Index, migrants in Malta are explicitly discriminated against, and the government provides very little protection for those who file complaints. An Equality Agency is being established to offer legal advice to migrants.
The government respects personal autonomy and freedom. However, divorce is illegal, and violence against women continues to be a problem. Malta prohibits all abortions, even if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; in November 2004, a UN committee urged Malta to reconsider this policy. Women occupy only 6 of the 65 seats in the parliament. However, women now hold two cabinet posts: minister of Gozo (the second-largest island in the group) and minister for family and solidarity. These women are the first to attain such senior government positions.
Malta, which is a destination for men and women trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation, remains on Tier 2 in the U.S. State Department's 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report. The placement indicates that Malta does not fully comply with minimum antitrafficking standards but is making significant efforts to do so.


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Wired To Kill:
In the near future, law and order breaks down, diseases, violence and immorality are rampant. However, one Christian young man decides not to turn the other cheek anymore. He modifies his wheelchair to help him protect his home and family, and kill the thugs first
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text: Ok, So I'm finally ready to move on from my D1. I'm torn btwn the D4 or Rezound (or maybe the Razor/Max). I'm not sure I can go w/out Keyboard or not. Rezound has a great display but bad battery (and is it me or is the screen too shiny). D4 has keyboard and Gorilla Glass, but qHD screen, but decent battery G-Nex is too big for me. Razor/Max is thin w/AMOLED, but no keybard and $100 more. What I want to know is, what did you get after your D1? Rezound Droid 4 G-Nex Razor/Max Thanks, A(n undecided) Bug


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German prosecutors charge Lebanese-German man with spying for Syria on exiled dissidents
BERLIN – German prosecutors have charged a Lebanese-German dual national with spying on exiled Syrian dissidents for Syrian intelligence.
The federal prosecutors' office said Monday it filed espionage charges at a Berlin court against the 60-year-old, identified only as Mohamad K. in line with German privacy rules.
He's accused of working for Syrian intelligence from September 2011 until February 2012. Prosecutors say he attended meetings in Berlin organized by Syrian opposition activitists and passed information to a Syrian man, Akram O., who was convicted of spying last December and sentenced to more than three years in prison.
In a separate case, prosecutors recently charged a German-Syrian man with spying on dissidents and passing information to the military attache's office at the Syrian Embassy.