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...reaffirming their commitment to public service and allaying some student concerns. Now, students say they hope the administration will follow the meetings with action.LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICSBut despite widespread concern among students over recent percentages of graduates going to the private sector, administrators say the statistics have been blown out of proportion.“I don’t believe there is a cause for concern,” says Sandy Hessler, director of the Office of Career Advancement. She says that of the 35 percent of 2008 graduates who entered the private sector, about a third entered...
...only 2% of a largely Thai-speaking Buddhist country. For a century, attempts at assimilation have been met with resentment and rebellion. The current hostilities erupted under former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose hard-line response to what he dismissed as banditry turned sporadic militant attacks into a full-blown insurgency...
...Reverend Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, an Episcopal priest and member of the leadership council for Religious Witness for the Earth, an interfaith organization dedicated to protecting the environment. “When we install solar panels we can worship God’s creation, the Appalachian mountains, which are being blown off in the search for coal,” she said. Roger S. Gottlieb, a panelist and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, noted that “denial and avoidance are in a sense reasonable strategies when the reality is overwhelming...
...Again, the U.S. administration has a choice to make: It could watch undecidedly as President Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric is blown out of proportion to picture Zionism as a central question of any U.S.-Iran relationship, or it could take stock of the recent welcoming signals by factions previously hostile to the very name of America to persist in pursuing dialogue in good faith. The Palestinian question, central to any conceivable peace in the Middle East, is not central to the beginning of U.S.-Iran negotiations. If a complex and dynamic nation, which cannot be naively summed...
...scarred have to be skeptical about all that Obama is trying to do," says William Galston, a Clinton White House policy adviser. "If he's right, our traditional notion of the limits of the possible - the idea that Washington can only handle so much at one time - will be blown to smithereens. If he's wrong, he may be cruising for a bruising on a lot of things. Then again, there's a third possibility: that this is the best negotiating strategy attempted by a Democratic President in a long time and he's angling for only a portion...