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...acted "illegally" toward the Nazi regime in the 1930s. The free world has much to thank George W. Bush and Tony Blair for, and I for one applaud their courage. Brian Cummings Wirral, England As the U.S. commemorated the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. government continued to maintain several hundred people in an illegal prison at Guantánamo Bay. Don't Americans realize the damage they inflict on their own image, democracy and ultimately Western civilisation? If we ever come to a "clash of civilisations," as some historians have suggested is possible, or to the religious war imagined...
...She’s been an activist for many years, particularly working on issues related to low-income women,” Gluckman said. “She has worked hard to maintain organizations...
...poorer, overcrowded and understaffed school systems. Often all that is understood is that a huge proportion of a class is filled up during the early round, followed by the assumption that acceptance in that round means the loss of the opportunity to compare financial aid packages. We also maintain that early admissions programs at elite colleges are unlikely to reduce stress, as Etchemendy suggests. While the small majority of overqualified applicants with clear-cut first choice schools will indeed feel more secure with an admissions offer in hand come December, the vast majority of early applicants to Harvard, Stanford...
...rivals, says Terry, is managing its explosive employee growth rate. There are now 9,000 Googlers, which certainly adds to the Googleplexity. "When it seems like they're bringing in more outsiders than they have insiders every year and doubling the size of the company, it's hard to maintain the corporate culture that made them successful," says Terry...
...polls keep suggesting thatRepublicans could be in for a historic drubbing. And their usual advantage--competence on national security--is constantly being challenged by new revelations about bungling in Iraq. But top Republican officials maintain an eerie, Zen-like calm. They insist that the prospects for their congressional candidates in November's midterms have never been as bad as advertised and are getting better by the day. Those are party operatives and political savants whose job it is to anticipate trouble. But much of the time they seem so placid, you wonder whether they know something...