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...It’s a very difficult problem because faculty members certainly all insist on having the right to set grades,” he said. “It’s something that has to be done by a consensus of the faculty, and that’s what makes it such a difficult problem to solve, and it has to be done in a way that’s not coercive...
...When refinancing, insist on a lower "reissue" rate for title insurance. Odds of title problems in a refinancing are very low. --By Daniel Kadlec
Homeland Security officials insist their approach makes sense, and point out that it has become more risk-based. "We're in the risk-management business here. We know the potential for a mass-casualty attack is not evenly divided," says Josh Filler, the department's director for state and local coordination. "We still believe everybody needs that baseline level of funding, but beyond that, we want to focus." Instead of implementing a risk-based model itself for the 60% of its budget that is discretionary, however, the department is waiting for Congress to do it. Explains a senior department official...
...Leaving aside the fact that Bush never fails to insist that the terror threat is as great today as it was on 9/11, these passages reveal the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness that lies at the heart of Clarke's book, and to an even greater degree, his television appearances flacking it. That's a shame, since many of his contentions - about the years of political and intelligence missteps that led to 9/11, the failure of two Administrations to destroy al-Qaeda and the potentially disastrous consequences of the U.S. invasion of Iraq - deserve a wide and serious airing. From...
...seething potential fault line is Kirkuk, the only city in Iraq that still has a curfew. Tension persists between the Kurds on one side and Arabs and Turkomans on the other. Many Kurds say they don't want full independence but insist on a great deal of autonomy, which the new interim constitution affords them. But the rival groups coexist warily. Saddam had expelled many Kurds from Kirkuk in his attempt to Arabicize the city. Now they're coming back to try to reclaim their homes. Haider Mohammed, 20, an Arab who studies at a local technical college, says Kurds...