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...this week in Annapolis, Md., a majority of the 80 or so college presidents in attendance said they would no longer participate in the popular annual rankings conducted by U.S. News and World Report. Instead, the Annapolis Group announced it will help develop an alternative set of data to aid students and their families in the bewildering quest to figure out how one school differs from the next...
...rankings have an additional and more nefarious component. Several college presidents have publicly complained that the rankings' emphasis on the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen has led colleges to fight over high-achieving (and often wealthy) students by offering them merit scholarships and thus leaving fewer financial-aid dollars available to low-income students...
...past year, Kim has decided, under steady pressure from an increasingly impatient Beijing, that he has little to lose from allowing North Korea to come out of its largely self-imposed isolation, accepting the blandishments of the Americans, the South Koreans and the Japanese - that is, fuel oil, economic aid, the renewal of full diplomatic relations with the U.S. - in return for giving up his nuclear program...
...albeit in slow motion," as one diplomat says - as long as the U.S. and its allies do the same. In this view, Kim can say to his cronies in the party leadership in Pyongyang that he has ensured their place atop North Korea, and "got a bunch of economic aid in the process, so we can afford to give up the plutonium program," says one diplomat in the region who watches and deals with North Korea full time...
...Gaza to spill over into attacks on southern Israel, and the Israelis have plenty of ways to strike back. Not only can they target Hamas installations and leaders with precision air attacks, but they can also turn off Gaza's water and electricity supplies, and halt convoys of humanitarian aid...