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...Negretti challenged the crowd to consider a new motto—“¿Què haremos?” (“What will we do?”). “Your mission is to leave here and ask yourself, ‘¿Que haremos?’What will each of us leave here to do to meet the challenges of our new frontier?” she said. This was the fifth annual presentation of the New Frontier Awards, given each year to one elected official and one advocacy or community service...
...beyond the use of academic jargon or the art of networking. Some would say that this goal is incompatible with an interest in the humanities. If I wanted to learn things that are useful or applicable, perhaps I should have studied biochemical engineering. Perhaps it is too much to ask courses on obscure Chinese dynasties or distant literary movements to provide a student with essential life skills. But I expect more of the humanities precisely because I reject the notion that they are useless. The problem is not that the humanities are inherently valueless, but rather that our approach...
...Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has been under fire ever since Hurricane Katrina. "Fifteen years ago, if I had surveyed every state employee and said, 'What is the one federal organization that you think does a great job,' it would have been overwhelmingly FEMA," says Scheppach. "Now, if I ask what is the one organization that is a failure, they would probably point to FEMA." Scheppach, who knows Napolitano from her time as chair of his organization, expects that she will work to rebuild the trust between the Feds and the locals, which will go a long way toward fixing...
...this as an effort to ask cross-cutting questions.” said Sampson. “It will serve as an incubator for new ideas and allow us to explore research...
...officers says, you don't go to war in blue helmets and white tanks. When we shift from a monitoring group to one that takes on military elements, we have to change the way we operate. We have to acquire different capabilities. We have to ask ourselves: To what extent are we ready? Were our assumptions wrong? Did we bank too much on the peace process? There will be lots of postmortems. But I think that one should not forget that there have been a lot of achievements. Three to four years ago, the country was dividing into three parts...