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...According to a study published Tuesday by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), underage drinkers account for 25 percent of all alcohol consumed...
...goal of education is to place people of different socioeconomic backgrounds on a common footing. Admissions decisions that take into account applicants’ ability to pay run contrary to the entire philosophy of giving people equal economic opportunity to pursue higher education...
...this gulf - between the way America perceives itself and the way it is perceived even by ostensibly moderate Muslim opinion - the result of a marketing failure? In a word, no. There's only so much an ad campaign can do. Beers told an interviewer after accepting the account that her job was "to deliver the intangible assets of the United States, things like our belief system and our values." But the Muslim world's hostility is based, in the first instance, less on America's values than on perceptions of its policies. There's no question that conservative Muslim fundamentalists...
Nearly 60 years after the end of World War II, the capacity of that conflict to stir up strong feelings shows little sign of ebbing. It was a clear-cut struggle against evil. A new take on the nature of that evil is explored in an absorbing, meticulously-researched account of how the 1943-55 quasi-fascist regime led by Argentine dictator Juan Perón spirited thousands of wanted war criminals from Europe. The author of The Real Odessa (Granta, 382 pages), Buenos Aires journalist and TIME contributor Uki Goñi, manages to arouse a new sense...
...roll call of indicted Nazi war criminals who ended up living more or less openly in Argentina until Perón was overthrown in 1955 includes Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Eduard Roschmann, Klaus Barbie, Ante Pavelic, Gerhard Bohne and Erich Priebke. This may be a matter-of-fact account of a sordid incident. But by keeping emotion at arm's length Goñi heightens the impact...