Strategies for Pooristan As one of the most impoverished nations in the world one of the lastauthoritarian dictatorships on earth and only recently in contact with theoutside world Pooristan needs to implement effective strategies forbecoming more developed It needs to focus on trade liberalization emphasize the importance of property encourage the growth of smallbusinesses allow the KIEOs a well controlled role in helping withdevelopment and provide opportunities for certain types of foreign directinvestment FDI Although shock therapy has been proposed for Pooristan

C Anthony Broh Horse-Race Journalism Reporting the Polls in the Presidential Election A Horse of a Different Color Television'sTreatment of Jesse Jackson's Presidential Campaign has used themetaphor of a horserace to describe reporting and media responses topresidential campaigns The horserace metaphor provides a framework ofanalysis for journalists who focus on polls to make predictions about whowill win the election BROH Horse-Race Journalism Reporting the Polls inthe Presidential Election However as Broh argues this predictions are highly unreliable as they only represent snapshots

Intelligence Collection Analysis in Terrorism Background Before September the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI had the primary role in the government's counterterrorism strategy Staff No The Department of Justice the NSA and other intelligenceorganizations were also used The lead role played by the FBI and CentralIntelligence Agency CIA included both intelligence and criminalinvestigation Counterterrorism intelligence and analysis took a secondaryposition as agents focused on building cases against those responsible forterrorist attacks Some of the reason for this lack of focus on terrorismintelligence

American Exceptionalism Beginning early in its history America has been characterized aspossessing a certain type of exceptionalism which differentiates it fromother countries Inn its classic forms American exceptionalism refers tothe special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation basedon democratic ideals and personal liberty The term though directlyattributed to German Marxists who wanted to explain what the U S seemed tohave bypassed the rise of socialism and Marxism also appears in differentform in the work of Alexis de Tocqueville