Cases

Robust Web of Corruption: Peru's Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

In 1990, President Alberto Fujimori swept to power in Peru on a wave of public enthusiasm for his promised reforms. Indeed, over the next five years Fujimori accomplished something of an economic turnaround miracle. He also vanquished a...

Neighborhood Conservation Services of Barberton: Responding to Change in the Magic City

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

In the late 1990s, the leadership of Neighborhood Conservation Services (NCS) of Barberton, Ohio--a nonprofit housing rehabilitation organization founded two decades earlier to help reverse the decline of this aging industrial city--found its...

Exercising Leadership in Northern Ireland

Publication Date: October 28, 2003

In December, 1987, 18-year-old Gary McMichael suddenly became the literal heir to the tradition of political violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland. McMichael's father John--a prominent leader of a Protestant "paramilitary" group--was...

Education, Immigration, and the "Right of Abode" in Hong Kong (Part C)

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

In early August, 2001, just in advance of a new school year, the Education Department of Hong Kong issued what officials believed to be a standard, non-controversial advisory to the 1200-plus primary and secondary schools receiving government...

Al Gore and the "Embellishment" Issue: Press Coverage of the Gore Presidential Campaign

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

In late 1999, in the midst of a hotly contested race for the Democratic Party nomination for president, word of a potentially damaging "gaffe" by Vice President Al Gore began circulating in the press. Reporting on his appearance at a student...

Education, Immigration, and the "Right of Abode" in Hong Kong (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

In early August, 2001, just in advance of a new school year, the Education Department of Hong Kong issued what officials believed to be a standard, non-controversial advisory to the 1200-plus primary and secondary schools receiving government...

Education, Immigration, and the "Right of Abode" in Hong Kong (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

In early August, 2001, just in advance of a new school year, the Education Department of Hong Kong issued what officials believed to be a standard, non-controversial advisory to the 1200-plus primary and secondary schools receiving government...

Education, Immigration, and the "Right of Abode" in Hong Kong (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

In early August, 2001, just in advance of a new school year, the Education Department of Hong Kong issued what officials believed to be a standard, non-controversial advisory to the 1200-plus primary and secondary schools receiving government...

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

Thirty years after its founding in 1973, New York City's Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) found itself at a crossroads. The nonprofit, church-related organization that had long-provided tenants with assistance in renovating abandoned...

Shelter and Poverty Assistance in Nouakchott

Publication Date: August 08, 2003

In the summer of 2002 the Commissariat for Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Social Inclusion, an agency of the government of Mauritania, had to decide whether and how to modify its Twizé program of shelter and poverty assistance...

Portland's Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices: Note on Measuring Housing Prices (B)

Publication Date: August 06, 2003

In December of 2002, the Metro Council of Portland, Oregon had to decide whether or not to expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for the metropolitan area. The UGB had been created as a tool to help promote a more compact, livable, and...

Portland's Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices: The Debate (A)

Publication Date: August 06, 2003

In December of 2002, the Metro Council of Portland, Oregon had to decide whether or not to expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for the metropolitan area. The UGB had been created as a tool to help promote a more compact, livable, and...