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...Monday and Tuesday, Bush will meet at Camp David with national security officials, Cabinet members and outside experts - with Iraqis beamed in by teleconference - to discuss ways for U.S. officials to work with the counterparts in the new Iraqi government. Snow emphasized the discussions will be broader than just the military, including economic development, and Bush described the agenda as "how to best deploy America's resources in Iraq and achieve our shared goal of an Iraq that can govern itself, defend itself and sustain itself." Since last July 4, Bush has been saying that "as the Iraqis stand...
...each woman to make her own individual choices—about career path, family life, or what clothes to wear tomorrow—without the responsibility or the constraint of her gender is steadfast. And the effort to contextualize, and thus compartmentalize, every action a woman makes within the broader framework of “women’s roles” often obscures this individuality.It seems that the tendency to see any action taken by a female as indicative of some broader assertion about women in society comes from two main sources—the need...
...into account the direct costs of waging the war, according to Bilmes’ paper, and it does not include the money the government must spend to replace worn military equipment or care for disabled veterans. A CBO spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter.As well as calculating the broader budgetary costs to the federal government of waging war in Iraq, Bilmes also added more elusive macroeconomic costs to the estimation. The loss of young Americans to the war and the increase in oil prices linked to the conflict both drag down the economy, according to the paper. In Bilmes?...
...count on this year’s Harvard graduates to help in this endeavor. You have just spent years as part of the Harvard community and, in many cases, also the broader community. During your time at Harvard, you have demonstrated your stake in the world around you: in the campaign to pay the University’s janitorial staff a living wage, through your participation in Phillips Brooks House projects, through activism at the Institute of Politics, and as a volunteer at the Lutheran Church homeless shelter, CityStep, or other Cambridge school programs...
Much of Bush’s cuts have been made under the umbrella of broader education reforms in which “accountability” has been the all-encompassing buzzword. But no amount of rhetoric can compensate for empty proposals which lack the bite of substantive programs. The U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education suggested, among other initiatives, instituting a system of standardized testing across the nation’s colleges and universities and creating a national database that recorded educational data for all U.S. college students. Ultimately, however, Bush?...