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...presidency. But in recent months, the former governor has made forays into the public arena—authoring several columns for Slate Magazine in which he offers insight into the economic crisis, appearing on the cover of Newsweek Magazine in April 2009, and simultaneously fueling speculation that he will attempt a political comeback...
...China’s relative power rises, it is liable to desire its own sphere of influence and this is natural. According to Kenneth Waltz and other prominent political scientists, all nations, regardless of regime type, attempt to maximize their power in order to survive in the inherently anarchic international system. As such, even full-fledged democratization in China is unlikely to affect its objectives. Much like how the US established and still sustains the Monroe Doctrine, China may try to set up an equivalent system...
...this difficult financial climate. Moreover, if the UC actually does manage to acquire the building, it will require extensive renovation in order to be usable, and the small size of the building itself suggests that it will not be the type of student center that students envision. This misguided attempt to address the social space issue will only hurt the UC’s credibility and detract from more pressing issues such as responding to the budget cuts.Yet there are always lessons to be learned from mistakes. Students were pleased with the CEB’s choice for Pep Rally...
...observing our reactions to them and by becoming aware of our habits of thought and the limits of the human gift for “zooming out” to reflect on a subject from the perspective of someone else. The key to my learning, at least, was the attempt to eliminate an automatic creation of opinions...
Government and private Web networks in the U.S. have emerged as frequent targets for online scofflaws. The Pentagon reported some 360 million attempts to break into its networks last year, up from just 6 million in 2006. That includes a reportedly successful attempt to hack into the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project and copy data about the aircraft's design and electronics systems. The espionage is believed to have originated in China. Experts say computer criminals in China and Russia have also infiltrated America's electrical grid, covertly installing software to potentially damage it at any time (the governments...