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...formed by Western socialists and remnants of the G.D.R. communists. But Die Linke's likely decent performance in the eastern states also speaks to promise unfulfilled. Ossis - Easterners - vote differently from Wessis - Westerners - because they still perceive their interests as being different. Ossis earn less, produce less and have higher rates of unemployment than Wessis. According to a recent survey by the eastern German charity Volkssolidarität, 1 in every 10 Ossis wishes he or she were still living in the G.D.R...
...Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009, passed by the House of Representatives last week, will initiate several of the Obama administration’s promised changes in higher education accessibility...
Even with taking into account for those factors that may affect mortality rate, the study found that uninsured Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their counterparts...
...doubt about using clerkship percentages to determine rankings. Nicholas A. Price, a first-year law student, said that “Yale and Stanford are known for attracting people who want to go into academia,” so it would make sense that their students would have a higher interest in clerkships. Rachel M. Sanchez, also a first-year, stated that Yale and Stanford are “more geared towards having their students become judges,” while Harvard is better known for producing corporate lawyers. Sanchez also noted that the rankings do not reflect clerkships taken...
...lot” of the H1N1 vaccine ordered by the end of October, Rosenthal said. Since the end of August, 120 people have gone to UHS with influenza-like illnesses, about 80 to 85 percent of whom are undergraduates, according to Rosenthal. This number is much higher than the usual number of sick students in September. “What we’re seeing in a day, we might be seeing in a week last year,” Rosenthal said. Of the 120 cases since August, about 50 are currently active. These students are either in isolated rooms...