Word: focusing
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Given all this drama and controversy, studying the U.S. ought to be more interesting than ever. But undergraduates across Europe have shifted their focus elsewhere, their disaffection a barometer of America's diminished standing in the world. "Students don't trust us," says Walter Grünzweig, a professor of American studies at Germany's Dortmund University, where the number of students applying for exchange programs to the U.S. has roughly halved since 2004. "We have to convince them we're not part of the propaganda branch of the American Embassy...
...funny while at the same time examining the democratic process.Suh said the SU candidates’ platforms were largely different from their national counterparts’—though both include balancing the budget. But, she added, many of the non-policy issues that have been in focus leading up to next month’s election, such as race, gender, and media bias, also played into Stuyvesant’s student government race.Vanessa Charubhumi, who was Zisiadis’s running mate and is now a freshman at Johns Hopkins, said that she saw how race...
...Both of your books seem to center heavily around childhood. Why such a focus on this period...
...Rashid said. That “brand” largely moved into tribal areas of Pakistan after the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. There, they trained virtually unimpeded until the Pakistani army began to intervene in 2004. Rashid said the United States’s lack of focus on rebuilding and stabilizing Afghanistan was a major reason the Taliban was able to regain power and gain new recruits. “How did we get here?” he asked. “In one word, Iraq.” The solution will not come from solely increasing...
...make matters even worse for McCain, this final session is focused on domestic policy, an area in which he is considered vulnerable. And yet for all the public interest and media focus on the debates, it is unlikely the last go-round will have a truly game-changing effect...