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...cursory examination of the Rome Statute reveals the ludicrous nature of this legislation. The treaty in question belied the fears of the act??s supporters; by operating on the principle of complementarity, the ICC will only investigate cases in which the state with jurisdiction over it is unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute. Yet on March 31, 2005, when the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Resolution 1593, the U.S. was left in the embarrassing position of having to abstain from a resolution calling...
...Gladwell’s new book “Outliers.” In the book, Gladwell argues that this crash of a flight from Colombia to New York, which resulted in 73 deaths, was caused, at least in part, by how cultural differences affect the way people act??even the way some fly planes. Colombians have a “high index of power distance,” according to Gladwell, which is a term from cross-cultural psychology describing the hesitancy of underlings to question superiors. This cultural phenomenon caused the Colombian co-pilot to speak...
...true that funding for the act increased at a rate five percent above inflation from 2001 to 2007, the Senate and the White House repeatedly requested less money than they were authorized to pay for some of NCLB’s provisions. In addition, compliance with some of the act??s provisions, such as improving the quality of teachers, requires extra money that the government has not provided. Without the money necessary to attract capable teachers and administrators or pay for textbooks or classroom aids, even more modest proficiency goals may exceed the grasp of many struggling schools...
Frank peppered his talk with wisecracks, joking that he was the “opening act?? for “Blood Frenzy”—the horror movie the theater was showing after the talk—and complaining about the malfunctioning microphone’s “liberal electronics...
...Obama find room to agree on the importance of service. That is reflected in part by their recent historic agreement at the ServiceNation Presidential Forum and Summit in New York City this past September 11th and 12th to co-sponsor the new bi-partisan “Serve America Act?? with Senators Kennedy, Hatch, Dodd, Cochran, and Clinton. This new legislation will grow AmeriCorps by 175,000 corps members, strengthen and grow the Peace Corps, and create new problem solving corps in education, disaster relief, environmental protection, and other areas. Despite the negative attacks of this presidential season...