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...report released earlier this week by ACT, the company that is responsible for the eponymous college entrance examination finds that only 26 percent of American students who graduate from high school having taken a college-preparatory curriculum are in fact prepared for college-level work. If these findings are correct, they point to an alarming decline in the quality of secondary education in America. What’s more troubling is that, despite these results, upwards of 17 million students are currently enrolled in the nations approximately four thousand colleges. It’s not much of a leap...
...many Pakistanis, Chaudhry's suspension is a stark reminder of the venal, institution-destroying politics that Musharraf claimed his 1999 coup was meant to correct. Small protests in support of Chaudhry, initially by the Bar Association, were brutally suppressed by the security forces, provoking even wider outrage. News coverage was throttled as well, with local television stations not just intimidated by regulators but physically attacked by armed police officers, in a dramatic reversal of the media freedom that many liberal Pakistanis had previously hailed as one of Musharraf's most important achievements in power...
...WITHOUT IRAQI COOPERATION, EVEN 300 INSPECTORS CAN'T DO THE JOB. That's correct, no doubt. But it's up to the inspectors to say so. I'm betting that we can get Iraq to cooperate more. If I'm wrong, there will still be time to draw other conclusions. When a regime like Saddam's finds itself caught between certain death and abandoning its arms, I think it will make the right choice. But I can't be certain...
...word shifted over time, [the playwrights] Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt adjusted the text to make it extra-clear that ‘rape’ in this context means ‘abduction…seizure…kidnapping.’” The directors were correct that the meaning of the word changed, but the change occurred in the 15th century at the latest. By 1960, “rape” meant what it means today; all that changed in the interim was the political climate. The song, though clever, was and remains a disturbingly...
...practice, Haddad has seen an increase in the number of younger people developing this cancer, people in their 30s and 40s. He attributes it in part to a "change in sexual behavior over the last decade." He says: "The idea that oral sex is risk-free is not correct. It comes with significant risks, and developing cancer is one of them...