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Arnold attributed the 75 percent hire rate to “where we draw our employers from, our community.” Graduates of the 40 eligible schools are apt to look for new hires among the alumni of their own alma maters as well as graduates of similarly top-tier schools, she said...
...heard you called a fundit. Is that an apt description of what...
...Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students, says exceptional children are kept with age-mates because most educators believe, incorrectly, that grade skipping will endanger these kids socially and academically. The report also says schools don't want to upset slower kids by removing their apt peers...
...committed to the alliance." And however inadvertently, the E.U. itself provided the best argument for NATO's survival in its 2003 European Security Strategy, a kind of blueprint for an E.U. defense force: "In almost every major intervention, military efficiency has been followed by civilian chaos." That's an apt description of Iraq, but also applies to places like Kosovo and Afghanistan. Right now, only NATO has the planning capacity and military means to tackle situations like these. The Europeans are doing their duty in the Balkans and Afghanistan, but being so heavily pressured to follow the Americans into Iraq...
...walk is like a cop walk, where you stride up there, and before you even tell the guy to roll the window down, he knows he's in deep trouble." With a cast including comic CHRIS ROCK and former NFL players Michael Irvin and Brian Bosworth, rookie Sandler is apt to take some hits in the game scenes. "I did all that stuff, and I pay for it every morning when I get out of bed and everything hurts," says Reynolds. Ah, but it was a sacrifice for art--the art of guys really crushing one another...