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...officials went to Geneva to judge Iran's willingness to address international concerns about its nuclear program, having indicated that they're going to give the process until the end of the year before judging its effectiveness at resolving those concerns. Notes of caution and caveats will abound, but the takeaway from Thursday's meeting will be: So far, so good...
After President Obama’s speech last week, outrage likely erupted in schoolyards from coast to coast. His address proposed that America lengthen its school day and year, for two reasons: to ensure that students remain in a safe, stimulating environment when parents cannot provide one at home; and to increase America’s academic competitiveness on a global scale. While this first justification reflects a dire need across lower-income communities, the second unfairly frames education in terms of test scores instead of well-rounded mental development. America would do well to lengthen school days and shorten...
Drawing a parallel between his remarks and President Barack Obama’s address to the Islamic world at Cairo University this summer, Yudhoyono said that America should continue to play a pivotal role in international relations. Even if the age of American dominance has ended, he said, the United States should exert economic, social, and political influence to “help make the world anew...
...outgoing, articulate and knowledgeable member of the Orthodox minyan,” wrote Rabbi Benjamin C. Greenberg, one of the event’s organizers, in an e-mail. “I invite members of the community and visiting scholars-in-residence to address the Orthodox minyan and more broadly the larger Hillel population regularly...
...when faced with a boycott, led by some U.S. states, for harboring pilfered assets; and stiff sanctions helped convince Libya to disavow terrorism after the 1988 Lockerbie jetliner bombing. But those are generally the exceptions. "Putting a sanction on a country always seems to be an inexpensive way to address the problem," Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has said. "Unfortunately, almost none of these sanctions have brought about change." That's particularly the case when they?re leveled unilaterally. A 1997 study by the Institute for International Economics found that since 1970, unilateral U.S. sanctions met their stated goals less...