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...crux of the idea is similar to Google AdWords, which gave anyone the ability to buy keywords and serve ads to users searching for stuff. (AdWords accounted for the lion's share of Google's $16.4 billion in revenue last year.) Where AdWords is targeted at what users are searching for, MyAds is targeted at the users themselves...
...applicants for 3,700 positions? You can bet the residents of the Gulf Coast, Davenport, Iowa and other regions hit by national disaster wish there were more AmeriCorps members to fill the gaps left by the private sector, and FEMA, in response to natural disasters. However, the crux of Robinson’s argument seems to be that the purpose of “nationalistic” programs is “not service for its own sake, but service as a way to strengthen people’s ties to their government.” This is an unfortunate...
...best jobs will go overseas, but he fails to seriously consider that testing is also being used as a measure of our national belief in equality, our belief that educators should aim to teach all children, no matter their socioeconomic station in life. Although it is clear that the crux of Wagner’s book is about this new achievement gap, his failure to address the structural barriers to education for low-income and minority students makes one wonder if he is committed—or if he thinks it’s possible—to close that...
President of the Harvard International Relations Council Kyle A. Fishman ’09 said that the IRC invited Goldstone to speak because of the combination of his personal and academic experience with international law. “I think his speech was really eye-opening, especially the crux of it being about the politics of law, which you don’t really think of,” said Fishman. “You think of law as being objective...
...Still, tough as his posture may have been on the crux of the deal - his insistence on a firm 2011 date for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq, rather than Washington's preferred hazy "time horizon" - al-Maliki's position may not be as solid as it sounds. The 2011 date is "not a 100% time limit," Hammoud says. "It could be changed in the future according to the situation in Iraq," he says, adding that a joint U.S.-Iraqi committee will meet in 2011. "At that time, the government has the right to ask the Americans...