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...more person-to-person contact. So over the next four years, Saudi Arabia will pay for al-Dehaim and as many as 20,000 other young Saudis to come to the U.S. to study. The U.S. has pledged to speed visa processing for the students--while still running full background checks and in-person interviews at the consulate in Jidda...
...interesting in all this is the education gap growing between men and women. I don't know exactly what the numbers are, but more girls than boys are graduating from college. So you're going to hit this point where you have this major gap in terms of educational background and thus employability between women and men--women being significantly ahead after all these years of making sure that women get access to the [whole] educational system. There's going to be a very interesting moment when we have to decide as a society, Why is this big gap happening...
...returning some merchandise and that there was confusion with his credit cards because he had moved a number of times." McClellan said Allen received the benefit of the doubt because "there was nothing in his prior history that we were aware of-he had been through a number of background checks...
...help students connect the dots of otherwise loosely connected material. History 10a should continue to be taught and continue to be required of history concentrators. The History Department may decide to establish a proficiency test of some form in order to excuse the few students who already possess the background the course provides, but for most concentrators, taking the course is a necessity. Moreover, if History 10a is failing to meet its worthy mission of providing history concentrators with a background—a “how we got here” narrative—rather then drop...
...this promise and fast pace fades into the background as the movie turns into one big motivational speech about staying hopeful. This isn’t a film that leaves you feeling empowered, ready to leave the movie theatre and conquer the world. It’s more of a down to earth exploration of what it means to stay optimistic, especially in the face of disappointment...