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...companies’ ventures in exchange for money. “The charges in the indictment against Congressman Jefferson are extremely serious,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement released by her office. “While Mr. Jefferson, just as any other citizen, must be considered innocent until proven guilty, if these charges are proven true, they constitute an egregious and unacceptable abuse of public trust and power.” Jefferson’s office has declined requests for comment over the past two days. He is not expected to resign...
...inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. As an applied math concentrator, he has been a head course assistant for several classes. His senior thesis, which was about the education of homeless youth, won the Hoopes prize for outstanding scholarship. And recently he was awarded Mather House’s Scholar Citizen prize by his masters and tutors. Next year Sarkar is taking his interest in quantitative social science across the Atlantic. He will be studying evidence-based social work at Oxford with a Frank Knox fellowship, which provides for a year of study at any British Commonwealth university. Alright. So he?...
...democracy. When democratization entails so many civilian deaths and economic dependence, is there any wonder that it is met with resistance and failure? It is time for a shift from the Bush Administration's vague, rhetorical emphasis on freedom to more concrete markers of democracy: human rights, peace and citizen participation. Jocelyn Fong, Phoenix...
...idea of a system that gives greater weight to skill is a step in the right direction. If the US wants to maintain its place as a technological and intellectual superpower, giving priority to skilled workers will be very important in the coming years. Scientists and engineers who are citizens of other nations, especially countries such as China, India, and Japan, are attaining better education and training, filling many of the top jobs in their fields, and thus attracting more resources to their countries. If America does not have enough skilled labor to compete, we will continue to lose valuable...
...democracy. When democratization entails so many civilian deaths and economic dependence, is there any wonder that it is met with resistance and failure? It is time for a shift from the Bush Administration's vague, rhetorical emphasis on freedom to more concrete markers of democracy: human rights, peace and citizen participation...