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...back to Iraq is simply too cruel. Al-Dewachi’s case also underscores a greater problem: The U.S. can be hostile to students from foreign countries that are not close allies. American universities have long been the schools of choice for top students from around the globe. America has reaped tremendous benefits from foreign students, who often stay and enrich our nation or return to benefit their home countries. By taking this approach, the United States risks undermining its commitment to equality of educational opportunity. Eventually, we hope that the United States can find the middle ground that...
...stronger military, we can tighten the net around their finances, and we can improve our intelligence capabilities. But let us also understand that ultimate victory against our enemies will come only by rebuilding our alliances and exporting those ideals that bring hope and opportunity to millions around the globe...
...They are a metaphor for a flawed system.” Ogletree is also the director of the law school’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and the narrator of the film. Derrick Z. Jackson, a panelist and op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe, said he agreed with the film’s contention that the media unfairly portrays minorities. Jackson cited a 1994 study of Chicago TV stations, which found that African-Americans accused of crime were two times as likely as whites to be photographed in the presence of police, to back...
...weeks: Barbara Boxer ostensibly dissed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having an "immediate family." A hapless Pentagon official named Charles Stimson called on American corporations to fire any law firm that represented terrorist suspects. An actor on Grey's Anatomy used the word faggot at the Golden Globe awards in the course of denying that he had used this word about another member of the cast in October. French President Jacques Chirac said it wouldn't be so bad if Iran got a nuclear bomb "or perhaps a second bomb a little later...
...admittedly not his best work, but “The Departed” marked his successful return to the crime thriller genre and was lauded by critics. The clear favorite to win, he took home the Directors’ Guild award last week and the Golden Globe in January.Greengrass picked up a surprise nomination for his tasteful depiction of 9/11 events in “United 93,” snubbing “Dreamgirls” director Bill Condon and husband-and-wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for “Little Miss Sunshine...