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...sounds simple. But that view not only contradicts Justice's own statement supporting a sentence reduction - Birkenfeld faced a possible five-year sentence for his work on behalf of Olenicoff - it's also flat-out wrong, says Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, who has been involved with hundreds of whistle-blower cases. After all, he notes, it would be a serious disincentive if whistle-blowers could be tripped up by inadvertently leaving out some information the government might come across later...
What do you think is the best argument going forward to support stem-cell research? Brad Kohn Jr. ISSAQUAH, WASH...
...campuses - particularly in cities and the northeast - could even out some of the geographic and economic disparities in military service. And there are good reasons to want the military at Ivy League schools, traditionally breeding grounds for future political leaders. According to research by Peter Feaver and Richard Kohn, who in 2001 edited Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security, since 1816 the more veterans there have been in the upper echelons of government, the fewer military actions the U.S. has taken. Back in 1991, veterans comprised half of the House of Representatives. Now they account...
...symbolic impact of the protest on students who presumably will return to their inner-city classrooms. "Telling them to go to another district and enroll sends the message that your teachers aren't as good as those in the suburbs," says Kia Banks, a literacy teacher at Chicago's Kohn Elementary School. "I bring the same level of competence to my classroom as any other teacher...
...unable to connect to a global health crisis, such as AIDS, when death counts are merely printed in a newspaper or are reported on the evening news. “It is important to show human faces, the structures behind global health,” said panelist David Kohn, global health fellow at the Nieman Foundation and journalist. Linda Harrar, senior content director for “Rx for Survival,” agreed. “We need to get the attention of the people by making our case interesting,” she said. “It?...