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...Democratic and Republican parties are about to lose control of the way their presidential candidates are chosen. Both had picked a select group of states that could elect nominees before Feb. 5, 2008. But Florida, which wasn't one of them, is now set to break the party-approved barrier and move its primary up to Jan. 29. South Carolina, which the parties picked to have the first Southern primary, says it will move its G.O.P. primary even earlier to keep that distinction. New Hampshire, scheduled for Jan. 22, requires its secretary of state to move its primary to stay...
...root cause is a language barrier. Faculty members of the sciences and the humanities strongly adhere to the belief that the world can either be exclusively expressed in math or in words. Social science also splits off the world in this manner. Any student who is taking intermediate microeconomics needs to decide if he wants to take a class taught in English or in math. If the former, he is to take Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory.” If the latter, Economics 1011a, “Microeconomic Theory.” Science theses should typically have...
...addressing this language barrier is why most interdisciplinary initiatives have failed except in joining concentrations that lie within the same tradition area. The combination of history and literature or chemistry and physics are offered as concentrations but nothing joins fields like mathematics and English or history and economics...
...social services. “Whether you’re talking about access to student loans or starting a new business...it has to happen through the capital loan market,” he said. Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor and a Kennedy School professor, said that another barrier to the success of government social service organizations is the inability of non-profits to compete for employees on salary. There are a “large number of students interested in changing the world,” he said, “but who want to do so through...
...reggaeton world. Today, the duo have used their own emerging hit-making power to gather a circle of reggaeton talents around themselves with their own label, Mas Flow Inc, even branching into remixes of more established pop artists like R. Kelly and Ricky Martin. Of course, the language barrier is one major factor keeping reggaeton from total penetration into the mainstream market in this country. Unlike many other forms of Latin music, however, most of the best reggaeton is being produced in this country (especially if you include American Commonwealth territory Puerto Rico). This American connection...