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...veritable barrage of hard-hitting, muckraking journalism. Having served as a summer school proctor the previous summer, I decried the practice of granting degree credit for watered down, easy summer courses. I expressed righteous indignation at the Z-list—the Admissions Office’s de facto special help program for the children of wealthy alumni. I ranted and raved about the pervasive cheating that occurs on problem sets in large lecture courses. And what change did I effect through all this writing? None, of course, whatsoever...
...rain was heavy, and there wasn't much cover. But despite the gloomy weather, Douglas Paal, head of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the U.S.'s de facto embassy on the island, was in a bright mood. For nearly an hour, Paal had sat and listened to Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian deliver his inauguration address to scores of foreign dignitaries and tens of thousands of his supporters in the square in front of the presidential office in Taipei. During his re-election campaign, Chen had repeatedly stressed Taiwan's separateness from China. While that stance helped...
...It’s very exciting but it also feels a bit odd, because we’ve been together for seven years and we’ve been de facto married for five of those years,” she said. “It’s like we’re getting married but we’re already married. I feel the legal reality is catching up with our daily reality...
...ironic that, in this fiftieth year since Brown, that de jure black-white segregation has morphed into de facto black-white-Hispanic segregation today. With it have come some of the same problems that existed during the Jim Crow era—functional illiteracy, diminished motivation and under-performance on academic and employment testing...
...plan been counted than Turkey was reminding the world that, despite opposition at home, it had pulled out all the stops to get to yes. As a reward, E.U. foreign ministers voted to ease Turkish Cypriots' economic isolation, provide j259 million in aid, and open the new de facto E.U. border on the island to Turkish Cypriot goods. But Turkey wants a bigger prize. In Cologne last week, Erdogan pressed Turkey's case with a mixture of mild warnings and warm reassurances. Shutting Turkey out could encourage anti-Western forces in his country, he said, adding that Turkey would...