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...last week to encourage more foreign students to study in the U.S., enable more American students to study abroad, and reward American students for learning languages critical to national security.Harvard officials said the initiatives are another step in the steady progress the federal government has made to remedy the drop in international enrollment in American universities that resulted from post-9/11 policies, which caused major delays and complications for many seeking student visas.Under-Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes told a summit of university presidents in Washington last Friday that the U.S. benefits from...
...office also plans to begin training students for a new Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA) program in February. He described the DAPA program as distinct from other peer counseling groups on campus. At least initially, the DAPAs will not have their own space with drop-in hours or a phone line for strangers to seek counseling. Rather, the program will be geared toward empowering students to assist their friends with alcohol and drug-related concerns. “My sense is that sometimes students might feel more comfortable going to a knowledgeable friend for advice...rather than an administrator...
...donated $300 to his gubernatorial campaign in June. Conte did as the attorney general suggested, and more. Saying that he did not believe a criminal case against Berberian could succeed, he refused to even release the toxicology reports privately to the Northborough police, who subsequently dropped their investigation.Reilly maintains that he acted only in the best interests of a family that has endured a horrible experience, and that he never asked Conte to drop the case entirely. But this defense is highly dubious. It’s unlikely, after all, that the attorney general places similar phone calls...
...sitting in Small World Coffee, the place in Princeton, N.J., where locals go when they want to avoid the sterile trendiness of Starbucks, just around the corner. The place is packed with students and professors. Nobel prizewinners drop in frequently (John Nash, the mathematician hero of A Beautiful Mind, is a regular). But I'm not here for intellectual-celebrity watching. I'm here because my editor has ordered up a story on the question of whether caffeine makes you smarter. And without a latte?with three shots of espresso today instead of the regular two?I wouldn't feel...
...PRESIDENT AS A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE SINCE THE '80s. Only for the money. I'm not one of those weenies who will drop out of the race just because they held an election and the Electoral College declared somebody else the winner. I just stay in the race and keep accepting cash contributions. That's the kind of candidate I am. Also, I have bumper stickers left over...