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...this fight for reform," he says. "It's not a traditional ideological battle between left and right. People on the far right are coming with chauvinism and xenophobia, and from the left against markets, against integration, against the need to be more competitive. But against that there's a broad awareness in the European public about the increased challenges of globalization. People see the competitiveness of emerging powers, and that we have to tackle that. So there's reason for confidence...
...reconciled with member states' demands later this year is an open question. Last week negotiators for the Socialists and the conservative European People's Party hammered out a compromise that would ban any E.U. country from putting up discriminatory barriers to foreign service providers - while also giving nervous governments broad rights to block them "for reason of public policy or public security or social security or for protection of the health of the environment." Some business advocates believe that provision effectively guts the directive, but Barroso appears unconcerned. "After the vote, we'll have a directive that fulfills our goals...
...order to allow students to “sample more courses and fields” and “make better-informed choices.” There is much that is right in the curricular review, including suggestions to replace the Core Curriculum with distribution requirements and to implement broad foundational courses. But as faculty of the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) wrote last week, the current proposal to push back the concentration choice deadline is misguided, and for more reasons than the DEAS faculty delineated...
...hand. Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has joined with a group at Oxford University to launch StopBadware.org, a site that aims to eliminate spyware and other performance-inhibiting programs. “Badware,” according to the website, is a broad category that encompasses adware, spyware, and other malicious programs. The site will collect individuals’ stories of their battles with the electronic nemesis. “We hope this will be a neighborhood watch of badware,” said Executive Director of the Berkman Center John G. Palfrey...
While committee members addressed standardized tests performances and the need for an information technology upgrade in the schools, some worried about the broad scope of the meeting and urged the committee to be more specific in setting achievable educational goals...