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...official says the Pentagon has concerns about sharing the high-end security software needed for the JSF with companies abroad. "If we could give the codes to the British government and not to a British company, that would be one thing," he says. But such arguments only reinforce the rising doubts in the minds of some British officials about the solidity of the underlying Britain-U.S. alliance. "We've long had troubles with Washington not considering us a full, trustworthy partner," says a British government source. "The JSF is only the most potent symbol...
...DIED. JOHN MCGAHERN, 71, Irish novelist whose early assaults on Ireland's religious and sexual hypocrisy were long shunned at home; in Dublin. After his 1965 novel The Dark was banned and he was forced out of his teaching job, McGahern moved abroad, living in England, France and the U.S. It was only after he resettled in his native Leitrim in the early 1970s that Ireland began to cherish his work, recognizing itself in his quiet portraits of a country riven by the pressures of the modern world...
...that students should take a course in ancient Greece, read Plato, or learn a foreign language. These are suggestions so obviously beneficial as to be immune from all but the most unhinged rants. Where Brooks stumbled is somewhere a large chunk of academia also seems to be stumbling: study abroad. The idea of “study abroad” is similar to those tired suggestions of “interdisciplinary” courses or courses in the “sciences” that are often bandied about as a panacea for the ills of American higher education...
...guest-worker visa, which could be renewed once if they paid a $1,000 fine and passed a background check. After six years, if they demonstrated English proficiency and paid another $1,000 fine and back taxes, they could apply for permanent residency, the first step toward citizenship. Laborers abroad could apply for the same visa, which in their case would be capped at 400,000 annually; at least 87,000 of those workers would be eligible to apply for green cards each year. The bill would also authorize work permits for 1.5 million farm laborers over five years. They...
...have about 25 or 30 more spaces, and there are two reasons for that,” Fitzsimmons said. “One is the great success of the study abroad program. The second is that Apley Court”—a freshman dorm that was closed to first-year students this year because of construction on the nearby Hasty Pudding building—“came back online...