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...your dues pays off. The Obama administration apparently realizes the wisdom of this logic and appreciates smart foreign policy, as evidenced by their recent choice to reengage with the U.N. by paying U.N. member dues, unlike the previous administration, which neglected its fiduciary responsibilities to the body. This reconciliatory approach, coupled with the removal of aggressively situated missile defense shields in Eastern Europe, has paid out enormous political dividends in the form of cooperation from other nations on the problem of nuclear weapons in Iran. Specifically, Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev has expressed a new level of receptiveness...
...approach is reflective of Smith’s stated emphasis over the past few months of maintaining the quality of teaching and research in FAS while making cutbacks that will not affect the educational mission of the University...
...It’s impossible to approach it without some emotion on behalf of the people whose lives are turned upside down,” Kirwan said. “If I ever get to a state in my life when I’m not troubled by the fact that economic challenges and budget reductions lead to personnel impacts, then maybe I should go into another field...
...after years of experience in the throes of fiscal maelstroms, Kirwan said she understands that she often needs a light-hearted approach to the challenges of cost-cutting—namely, in the form of a stuffed Grinch doll that she sometimes brings to her office...
...make a heavy-handed statement about the constraints facing us. I can just show people the Grinch, and that’s a good way to just remind them that there are some hard choices to be made,” Kirwan said. “But if we approach them together in a spirit of shared responsibility, then we can often come up with a solution...