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...scheduled to hand over authority next month to the new government of Kosovo, which was to be aided in security and judicial tasks by a 2,200-man mission under the auspices of the European Union. But Russia's refusal to recognize Kosovo's independence has thrown that plan into doubt. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has yet to make a decision about pulling out, and European diplomats now concede that the E.U.-led mission is in jeopardy. As a result, they say, Kosovo could face an interregnum with no properly functioning state institutions. "Serbia is going...
...appalled. The gas-tax holiday was a scam. It had been tried at various times - Barack Obama had voted for a local version in the Illinois legislature - and prices never came down. The oil companies and gas-station owners simply pocketed the difference. Clinton's "responsible" version of the plan was also a scam. She wanted to pay for it with a "windfall profits" tax on the oil companies, but she had earlier, and more responsibly, called for the elimination of tax breaks for those same companies. If you eliminate the tax breaks, you effectively eliminate the windfall profits. There...
...victory speech after the smashing North Carolina results came in, Obama went directly after both McCain and the media. "[McCain's] plan to win in November appears to come from the very same playbook that his side has used time after time in election after election," Obama said. "Yes, we know what's coming. I'm not naive. We've already seen it, the same names and labels they always pin on everyone who doesn't agree with all their ideas, the same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives, by pouncing on every gaffe...
Though there were no objections to the plan, some committee members said they were worried that students would take advantage of an un-proctored exam...
Beyond the financial concerns inherent in this plan lie its ideological inconsistencies with the missions of institutions of higher learning. Colleges and universities have missions that commit them to serve and better the community, callings that shouldn’t be reduced to assuage the problems the state government can’t handle. Perhaps this proposal would have been more amenable if the money taken by the state went directly to struggling non-profit organizations around the Commonwealth or other salutary areas. The fact that this revenue mechanism would have only been one of many recent ploys to help...