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...vacation may not be safe for much longer. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 reiterated President Obama’s belief that curtailing the length of summer breaks for public schools would be an important way to keep American students competitive with their counterparts in Europe and Asia. While shrinking summer might make fifth graders gasp in horror, it is also could be an important step in revitalizing American public schools. We hope that the Department of Education acts on the proposal but keeps in mind that, while lengthening...
...United States ought not fear the possibility of overhauling summer as we know it in a dramatic fashion. We should not take off the table any method that has proven effective at improving the quality of American education...
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...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was 40,000 feet in the air on Sept. 21, en route to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, when he got the news. Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, after sneaking back into his Central American country, had shown up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa seeking refuge. Lula, like every other world leader, has called for Zelaya's restoration ever since the Honduran was ousted by a military coup on June 28, so he had little choice but to let him into the embassy. But when Lula arrived...
...wish of left-wing Latin American leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who publicly boasted that it was he who'd urged Zelaya to go to the Brazilian mission. Whether or not that's true - and many in the Brazilian media "are skeptical that this could have happened without the Lula government giving Zelaya some sort of signal that he would be welcome" at the embassy, says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. - Brasília finds itself in the kind of diplomatic spotlight it once shunned...