November 28, 2014 – Peace Corps Worldwide

OIG releases its report on the Medical Care Nick Castle received prior to his death

Nov 28 2014

The Office of the Inspector General has released a report on its investigation of the medical care that PCV Nick Castle received while serving in China. To read the report, here is the link: OIG Report on Medical Care of Castle We were able to obtain the actual report because the Office of the Inspector General has released the report to the public. We made a FOIA or Freedom of Information Request in order to get the report as soon as it was published. The Summary of Findings is taken directly from the report. Here is a Summary of the Results from that report. I converted the PDF into a word document, so it may be difficult to read. The actually report is 32 pages long. There is a Synopsis in the beginning of the report. This Summary of Results begins on about page 30. Summary of Results During OIG’s . . .

George Packer (Togo 1982-83) and The Quiet German

Nov 28 2014

The current issue of The New Yorker (December1, 2014) carries a long, long piece by George Packer (Togo 1982-83) entitled “The Quiet German” that focuses on Angela Merkel, who Packer calls, “the most powerful woman in the world.” Packer, who has been a staff writer for magazine since 2003, last spring was an Axel Springer Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Merkel, who George writes, gives few interviews and almost always to German publications, and all anodyne, declined to speak to him. That said, this is a fascinating account of Merkel, and comes with a page of ‘head shots’ of the woman done by Herlinde Koelbl who has been photographing Merkel since 1991. Koelbl was one of many people that Packer interviewed for this article. Merkel might not have much to say, but she does, it seems, like to have her photo taken, though Packer reports Koelbl said, “Merkel . . .

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