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There's pretty good evidence that what you need to do is to build up an emotional pathway of empathy in the brain. You can do that through a story. Once that pathway is cleared, then it will put up with a certain amount of statistics and data and information. That's why I try to find just the most compelling story I can and write it in a way that if someone will only read just the first half-sentence, they'll keep going. If they begin to feel some compassion, then one can lay out the larger picture...
Current and former administrators agree that the OIP and OCS no longer need to remain separate, as studying abroad has become both more acceptable and accessible...
...Ahmed, director for the International Crisis Group in Islamabad. "What we're seeing is a nexus between an irresponsible media, the mullahs and the military, which is using anti-Americanism to beat a weak civilian government on the head," she says. Ahmed suggests that while the Obama Administration may need the generals' support in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda - who have sanctuaries inside Pakistan's tribal territories - it should not falter in trying to prop up the country's civil institutions. Otherwise, she says, the root causes of illiteracy and poverty that have given rise to militancy...
...public displays of vexation when the message is supposed to be unity, cohesion and the will to prevail together? The reason: many Europeans don't have the same "there's no other choice" attitude with Greece that they had last year when confronted with the need to bail out their banks to prevent a financial collapse. "I'm against [a Greek bailout], especially since the Greek government cheated in the first place and hushed up the real numbers," says Berlin physician Peter Seidel, 52. (Read "Why Greece's Economic Debt Crisis Threatens the Euro...
...broad debate has opened on opposition websites questioning the tactics, the organization and the kind of support the movement needs or doesn't need from abroad. By outmaneuvering the opposition, says Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, "the government has shown it is capable of learning, and the opposition has to do the same. Going out into the street can't be its only tactic." (Where was the opposition during the Revolution Day rallies in Iran...