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...meeting yielded a high Cantabrigian turnout—with more than three times as many citizens in attendance than usual—due to the agenda’s 2008-2009 school year budget presentation. In addition to school officials and the general public, principals of Cambridge Public Schools were also present to answer questions...
...preparing for the massive celebrations that would come with the announcement. But in the end, no announcement came, a fact which Velo said was unsurprising to most Cubans.“Cubans have an expectation of let-downs,” he says, pointing to the high hopes present after the fall of the Soviet Union. “People are reticent to go out and celebrate because they don’t want to be let down again.”Balmori says that while this glass-half-empty mentality exists, most are still hopeful that communism in Cuba...
...advocates say full social acceptance has hardly been achieved. And given that students are notorious for subjecting even personal relationships to cost-benefit analyses, the result is that a large share of the gay students remain in the closet. The focus on future gain—as opposed to present satisfaction—further lends to this hesitancy to advertise sexuality. According to Kimmel, personal and professional worries in a competitive, high-pressure academic setting often force gay students to closet themselves until they are completely independent and well settled in careers. And the fact also remains that students come...
...unlike the old Soviet Union, the Pentagon can't quite cite a clear and present danger. So it's pointing to China's secretiveness as justification for assuming the worst. "The lack of transparency in China's military and security affairs poses risks to stability by increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation," the report said. "This situation will naturally lead to hedging against the unknown." The Pentagon adds that China spent up to $139 billion on its military, up to three times its declared budget (but only about a quarter of the Pentagon's). "The real story...
...contra John McCain—a candidate with Hillary’s foreign policy credentials and without such widespread (albeit superficial and oft-overstated) “dislikeability.” Painting a Purple Heart winner as “anti-hope,” I would hazard, could present a few new challenges for the Obama spin machine...