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...lobby itself. In their chapter on the lobby’s influence on the government, the authors clearly document the unhealthy sway that the lobby has had on Capitol Hill, essentially blocking or forcing from power large numbers of Congressional hopefuls or preventing the advancement of sitting Congressmen who fail to side with the lobby’s interests. Equally convincing and alarming is the pair’s examination of the lobby’s widespread support in the media world. Mearsheimer and Walt provide a large body of evidence not only on the tremendous media support for Israeli...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Lobby’ Authors Confront and Transcend Controversy | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...need to train with the media so the media becomes part of the team. You gotta build trust and relationships with the local media," says one veteran emergency manager who has been through a previous TOPOFF exercise. "But everyone is afraid of looking stupid. No one wants to fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Terror Drills | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...attends does affect how well he will do - and that we could learn something from how holy orders run their schools. The Center on Education Policy, however, is an advocacy group for public schools, so it didn't look into why holy-order schools are succeeding where others fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Private Schools Really Better? | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...still, many patients fail to acknowledge that those threats exist. For some, admitting to stress feels like a sign of weakness; others resign themselves to it, as if it were an unavoidable dimension of life. So most of us simply carry on with our 15-hour workdays and fraught relationships. In another study published in the October 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers at the University College of London followed a group of about 9,000 civil servants for 12 years and found that people who experienced negative close relationships - marked by conflict and fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Stress Harms the Heart | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...would like [the audience] to leave with the idea of these people as individuals and their relationships because the play, more than anything else, explores the idea of communicating, of how effectively communicating can act as salvation—communication coming in to save the day when all else fails, when your own faculties fail. Oh God, I do sound pretentious… It’s, I guess, not just pretending like we’re the first people to do that on stage, but rather staying away from the idea of this being a play about ideas."Flynn...

Author: By Scott A. Zuccarino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Rachel E. Flynn '09 | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

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