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...many as two-thirds of Japan's foreign-language students were enrolled at Nova. But things started to unravel for the company in April, after the Supreme Court ruled that its prepaid tuition scheme, under which students bought thousands of dollars in lessons up front and received only partial refunds in the event of cancellations, was illegal. A subsequent government investigation unearthed more dodgy business practices at Nova, including false advertising and contract violations, and led to a partial suspension of its operations - at which point hundreds of thousands of students demanded their money back. The result was the equivalent...
...Democrats eager to paint the Bush Administration as torture-happy. But the answer actually has Dems in a tight spot. To take a hard line against torture, they have to vote against an otherwise qualified candidate. A lot of centrists will rightly argue that no nominee is likely, with partial knowledge, to denounce a technique the boss may have approved. If Democrats approve Mukasey, though, they will have handed Bush a double victory: they would confirm his candidate and compromise their own moral clarity in the process...
...Molly Ringwald, a diva whose behavior almost prevented her from getting the star role, occupied too much of his time. “Mollie had a little taste of fame already. She was a bit of a handful,” he explained, adding that the studio was not partial to Ringwald. “They wanted the girl from ‘Flashdance,’” he said.Deutch fought for Ringwald. “I groveled a bit to a sixteen-year-old,” he said, adding that the decision paid off.Thompson shared...
Even soft-spoken Ginsburg belted out an aria last term. The decision to uphold a federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions provoked a speculative outburst from the legendary women's rights advocate. The ban, she declared from the bench, "and the court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court--and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court...
...said. The committee’s goal, which Harris says is an ambitious one, is to choose the implementation plan in time for a vote by professors before the start of the spring shopping period in February. By that time, the committee also hopes to have at least a partial list of Core courses that will count for Gen Ed credit, Harris said. Using the guidelines set by the Gen Ed legislation passed in May, the committee has full discretion to decide which Core courses will make the cut under Gen Ed.The committee is also actively working to recruit departmental...