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Missing Indictments in the Case of Maher Arar
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- September 10, 2015
© CHRIS WATTIE/Reuters/Corbis The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have laid a criminal charge against George Salloum, director of the Far Falestin prison in Damascus, Syria, where Maher Arar was tortured in 2002-03. At the same time, the Mounties issued an international Interpol ‘blue notice’ for Salloum’s arrest to enable his eventual extradition to Canada. The
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We Are All Responsible for the Safe Passage of Syrian Refugees
- Analysis
- September 8, 2015
Philosophers are fond of asking this question, to press peoples’ intuitions about the right thing to do: Imagine you are walking by a pond, in your fanciest suit on your way to an important meeting, and you notice a baby drowning in the pond. Whose job, asks the philosopher, is it to rescue the drowning
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Low-Fee Private Schools and Development: What Do We Really Know?
- Analysis
- September 8, 2015
by Prachi Srivastava I have been researching low-fee private schooling for nearly a decade and a half. No one could be happier that the issue is finally receiving the high-level attention it deserves, with discussions in development circles and an Economist cover story in August. When I first started the research it concerned me that
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Pause Before You Laugh at Governor Walker
- Analysis
- September 2, 2015
Election campaigns are comedy fodder. This week’s top supplier is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the man running for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States. When queried on Sunday by Chuck Todd of NBC News’ Meet the Press about the risk of terrorists sneaking across US borders to launch attacks, Walker called the idea of
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