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...launched into mediation sessions with our proctor to discuss how to make our room work. It didn’t take long for us to learn that proctors are not infallible advisors. They are for the most part very nice graduate students who are too busy to effectively pair problems with solutions...
...against Hoyer for House majority leader if Democrats won this fall, Pelosi did little to dissuade him. When Frost, who is now out of Congress, unsuccessfully ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee last year, Pelosi repeatedly rebuffed his attempts to get her support. While she declines to discuss those conflicts, Pelosi told TIME, "Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me." Pelosi carries a chip on her shoulder, believing that fellow Democrats and media élites have constantly underestimated her political ability, dating back to her unsuccessful effort to become head...
...opening the spigot" on the droves of sub-Saharan Africans gathering on Libyan shorelines in order to gain concessions on outstanding diplomatic questions, including Italian reparations for past colonial injustices. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo P?rez Rubalcaba is traveling today to Senegal and Mauritania to meet with authorities and discuss measures to control the outflow. Vice-president Mar?a Teresa Fern?ndez de la Vega will visit Finland on Wednesday to discuss the issue with the Finnish authorities, who hold the rotating EU presidency...
...think Iran is a difficult country to understand, you're absolutely right. It is a place, after all, that has inspired books entitled "Who Runs Iran?", where Western diplomats hold cocktail parties to discuss how baffled they are, where no one conducts opinion polls (the last person who tried went to prison for producing unwelcome results). Such a climate is unhelpful to those seeking to get behind the contradictory and opaque face that Iran displays to the world. The country presents no shortage of paradoxes. In the past eight years, Iranians have elected both a Kant-quoting liberalizer...
Short-lived jobs are a theme of Karr's résumé. In the spring of 2000, while studying early-childhood education at the University of North Alabama, Karr became a student teacher at the Kilby Professional Laboratory School. But school administrators soon called him in to discuss complaints about his behavior with fifth-grade girls. Karr failed to show for the meeting. Shortly thereafter, he dropped out of North Alabama, just weeks before graduation...