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...will continue to suffer from lawlessness. NATO troops are not trained to fulfill the necessary roles of maintaining law and order and working with the community in an area wracked by violence and organized crime. It will take an adequate force of international police officers to fulfill this vital function...
...long as these guidelines are sufficiently liberal and the University is flexible as precedent is established, the changes should serve both students and the University well. Start-up businesses can foster unique educational experiences and function as a valuable creative outlet. They are as worthy an extracurricular pursuit as any student group or term-time job. Thus far, the College has had little problem with students who are already involved in business enterprises...
Mikhail G. Shapiro, a first-year at Brown University, was at Columbia on Saturday for a student government function. He described the campus atmosphere as "drab...
...Most people think what they do is a function of who they are, whereas a large part [of what we do] is where we find ourselves," she says. "The real or imagined presence of other people influences our behavior...
...This, she says, is purely a function of the fact that students have not had the time or the education to form all of their beliefs concretely...