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Second, the plan is supposed to provide both vocational training for students going directly into the work force and advanced course tracks for college-bound students. These students, however, already have the option of creating de facto specializations by focusing electives on one area if they so choose. Furthermore, shoving a specified menu of additional courses down students’ throats is not the best way to improve work and college preparation for the masses, even though it may work at “science magnets” for select gifted and motivated students. Instead, educators should focus on reducing...
...election-funding system and finishing reform of the House of Lords. But many insiders viewed the demotion as a move by Blair to wrest even more power away from the Foreign Office, especially over Europe policy. This chimes with suspicions that Blair is trying to create a de facto but supercharged Prime Minister's department, allowing him a freer hand in areas important to his legacy. But another reason for Blair to bump Straw, says a longtime Labour aide, is Straw's slightly more dovish attitude toward Iran, "a nuance that is deeply felt" in Downing Street - where, despite...
...year-old Anoja Kugenthirasah, an ethnic Tamil from the village of Poovarasakulam, a few kilometers from the de facto border between government and rebel territory in northern Sri Lanka. Around 1:25 p.m. last Tuesday, Kugenthirasah arrived at the front gate of the Sri Lankan army headquarters in the capital Colombo, produced an identity card, and named an officer she said was her husband. Indicating her bump, she told the guards she was due at the army clinic for a check...
...wedded to a sectarian outlook that precluded offering greater power to the Sunnis in the hope of drawing them in, unwilling to rein in the militias associated with his own sect, and (in the case of the Kurds) hostile to a federalism that would allow the creation of de facto-independent regions. One early test will come over the next month as Maliki cobbles together a cabinet - Jaafari had favored putting members of the Shi'ite alliance in charge of the defense and security portfolios that Washington wants to see controlled by U.S.-friendly secular leaders...
...organizations eligible for funding on an event-by-event basis. The editorial’s assertion that student funds should “serve all Harvard students,” is inconsistent with its later approval of funding for “groups that may discriminate in some de facto manner.” Although I do not personally object, when the UC grants funding to an all-male or all-female singing group, half of the campus loses access to its own money. If the UC’s resources must only be used for benefit of the entire...