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...there are many challenges," concedes Ramos-Horta. "But don't dismiss us too quickly as a failed state ... Our society was nearly destroyed by Indonesian occupation. It will take more than a couple years to fix things...
...Others are not so quick to dismiss. Says John Green, Senior Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public LIfe, "There isn't a well-developed theology, a set of propositions. He appears to have traveled a lot in Latin America, but my colleagues say he doesn't have much of an international following. But really, we have no way of knowing whether or not it may ultimately spread beyond this." Thomas Tweed, Chair of the religion department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an expert in Miami's religious history, doubts, as do several other scholars...
...Dunn notes. “[And] none of the changes were off the wall or impulsive.”The changes, however, were profound. The primary problem that Faust had to deal with was an overburdened budget and a too-large staff. “Drew had to dismiss 25 percent of the staff,” Radcliffe alumna Charlotte P. Armstrong ’49, who served as president of the Board of Overseers from 1998 to 1999, recalls. “It was very, very painful, but the changes were done in as humane and gentle...
...Gross said that another concern is the board’s sanctions. Punishments for unsatisfactory academic records and disciplinary cases currently include academic probation, required withdrawal, or recommendation to dismiss for serious misconduct...
Similarly, it is extremely useful for a black person to try to understand the problems and struggles that may exist in the lives of white people. While white people should not get defensive about race to the point that they dismiss and overlook the racial inequalities that exist in our society, black people cannot write off the dilemmas that white people face in their lives as well. There are many white people who suffer from the ills of poverty and discrimination, and these issues must be confronted as well...