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...that is content nonspecific. You can give it to an engineering major and you can give it to an English major and learn the same thing. Hundreds of colleges and universities administer these surveys and tests to their students, but most of them don't publish the data. They keep it to themselves...
...schools aren't as good as they could be and need to get better. People will argue the method, but they won't really argue the point. They won't say, "Oh, there's nothing wrong with our K-12 schools. They're awesome. We just need to keep giving them more money and stay out of their business." But that's what a lot of people think about colleges. And colleges do more than anyone to perpetuate that myth. But it is a myth...
...Yemen for eventual release under the right circumstances. The officials decided that circumstances militated against sending the men home. "We all took a look at Yemen and said, Man, this stinks," says a senior State Department official. "Normally when you repatriate [detainees] to a government that is competent, they keep an eye on them. In Yemen the government has less capacity [to do so]. We'd be negligent if we were ignoring that...
...have the most fair of the two trial proceedings and also have an opportunity to have the most intelligence to keep the American people as safe as possible?" he says...
...best-case scenario for the Democrats in the fall is that they keep all five vulnerable seats in the Senate and lose only 15 seats in the House. There may even be a shot at picking up a couple of new seats to help offset any losses. After all, House Republicans are defending nine open seats (which John McCain either lost or won with less than 60% of the vote in 2008), while Democrats are defending seven seats (which Obama either lost or won with less than 60% of the vote). And in the Senate, Dems have strong candidates...