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American higher education in 2007 is in a state of paradox – at once celebrated and assailed. A host of popular writings from the 1980s on have charged universities with teaching too little, costing too much, coddling professors and neglecting students, embracing an “illiberalism” that has silenced open debate. A PBS special in 2005 described a “sea of mediocrity” that “places this nation at risk.” A report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last year warned...
...Nobel Committee strongly praised the efforts of Gore and the IPCC for driving increased recognition of global warming’s threat. In the 1980s it “seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and consequences still more apparent...
...Faust should maintain the policy of divesting from investments that are directly linked to immoral and unyielding regimes whose unconscionable actions our community uniformly rejects, such as Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s and the Sudanese government today...
...Rudenstine called Harvard “venerable,” “magical,” and “enduring.” The former Princeton provost said this week that he used that occasion to respond to the conservative assault on the academy in the 1980s. Much of the speech was a history, tracing the ideas of American education that gave birth to the research university of the late 20th century...
...Jaish al Mahdi - the militia loyal to anti-American Shi'a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which the soldiers call "JAM" for short. Ibrahim and others complain that the Americans shell the area regularly, reminding some of the men of the horrors of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s...