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Before the week is out, Tony Blair will discover whether he can remain Prime Minister, and if he can, whether the office is still worth holding. First there's the culmination of weeks of feverish campaigning, arm twisting and strategic concessions by Blair's Education Minister to contain a massive Labour rebellion over plans to increase university budgets by making students pay more. A loss on this bill would mean a central plank of Blair's push to rejuvenate British education - and his broader drive to find ways of modernizing public services without raising taxes - would stand rejected...
Over the last decade, critics focused on the big-time, revenue-generating college sports programs—North Carolina basketball, Michigan football and the like. But as the frenzy over selective college admissions grew to a feverish pitch in the second half of the 1990s, disgruntled rejected applicants began to point fingers at competing constituencies they believed were unqualified—first minorities, and more recently legacies. It was only logical that the biggest group of students to benefit from a non-academic selection preference—athletes—have now come under fire...
Last year, several of my friends—all intelligent, interesting, and creative people—surrendered to the call of Wall Street. A starting salary of $65,000 a year, they claimed, was simply too good to turn down. As recruiting season reaches a feverish pitch, it’s likely that more of my friends will soon be making the same decision. This year, I’m going to do more than shrug my shoulders. To those who haven’t yet signed away the next three years of your lives...
Islam doesn't get more radical than the version taught at the Binori town mosque and seminary, which educates more than 9,000 students at branches across the city. There, in the feverish days after Sept. 11, sermons reviled President George W. Bush as a decadent Pharaoh and lauded Osama bin Laden as an Islamist hero. The school counted top Taliban commanders as alumni and served for years as a favorite rendezvous for al-Qaeda men passing through Pakistan en route to Afghanistan. In response to 9/11, the U.S. denounced these schools, or madrasahs, as terrorist-training academies and called...
...colleagues found him a "most unsatisfactory witness" who had changed his story, a charge Gilligan vehemently denied. Then Kelly's suicide put the dispute back on the front pages and in a "weird new dimension," says a Whitehall official. The Daily Mail's headline after he died captures the feverish anger at the government: proud of yourselves?, it reads, over pictures of Blair, Campbell and Defense Minister Geoff Hoon. At a press conference in Japan, on an Asian trip that seemed almost surreal in its bad timing, a visibly shaken Blair was even asked if he had "blood...