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Homeownership has long been heralded as better for children. Kids raised in owned - as opposed to rented - homes show higher math and reading scores and less tendency to drop out of high school. In recent years, organizations from the National Association of Realtors to the President's Council of Economic Advisers to Habitat for Humanity have made sure to mention those sorts of findings in efforts to push more people to own houses...
...when financial resources are tight around the University, this gives the Leadership Institute the confidence to move forward with a lot of different initiatives that they were hoping to execute,” he said. The Leadership Institute applied for the grant after being nominated by one of the council members at the Flora Family Foundation, which often supports small organizations seeking to expand. “What I believe they saw in this situation was an organization that has the potential to expand to affect Harvard, the greater United States, and the world,” said Jonathan...
...plans to appoint 100 ruling politicians to oversee ministries. In order to transfer more power to the Cabinet - and away from ministry bureaucrats - the DPJ will also replace the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, an advisory group to the Prime Minister's office set up in 2001, with a National Strategy Bureau (NSB) reporting to the Prime Minister. The NSB will be key in budget and diplomatic-policy formulation. The DPJ also wants to eliminate amakudari, or descent from heaven, which places retired bureaucrats in plush jobs. "This is a new way of doing business in this country," says...
...instead of criticizing Ma for his visit, the spokesman for China's State Council Taiwan Affairs Office blasted Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party for its "ulterior motives to instigate the Dalai Lama, who has long been engaged in separatist activities, to visit Taiwan...
...Some Israelis continue to see the hand of God in all this. Settler leaders said they hoped Netanyahu, whom they forced from power in 1999 for making concessions to the Palestinians at the Wye River peace summit, would take note. Says David Ha-Ivri, spokesman for the Samaria Regional Council, a settler organization: "We always hope that the fear of God will protect public officials from making bad moves. In our belief and understanding, eroding away our rights on the land of Israel is a bad move. I hope that this reflects on Netanyahu and strengthens him in the position...