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...arsenal precisely against that of the other. That has prompted some arms-control experts to suggest that Obama should focus on making further unilateral cuts to America's nuclear arsenal before seeking further symmetrical reductions. Such a move, they say, would foster trust and allow more rapid progress without changing the principle of mutually assured destruction that has, for more than half a century, deterred either side from initiating a nuclear war. (See TIME's Russia covers...
...learn from Japan. One is its commitment to energy-efficient public transport. Anyone who sniffs at Obama's plan for high-speed railways should have joined me on the glide back to Tokyo. But the main lesson Japan can offer the U.S. today has nothing to do with rapid progress. It concerns the perils of inaction. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
Bashy Quraishy, Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen As a European with Pakistani roots, your article both offended and angered me. When will U.S. journalists understand that Europeans in 1950 decided to cooperate instead of bash each other over the head? The result was peace, prosperity and progress. Europe has no desire to get involved in useless faraway wars just to prove that it is a superpower. Power comes through good policies, respect for the integrity of other countries and not through the barrel of a gun or acting as an elephant on the world stage. (Read: "Europeans Cry Foul Over...
...have the skills they need to compete in an increasingly global workforce. Obama would define school success by how much improvement students make from grade to grade, no matter where they started, as opposed to the current system, in which schools are judged on students' absolute performance, not their progress. Obama's model is similar to the one we pioneered three years ago here in New York City, where we give schools an A-to-F grade based on how well they're helping their students acquire skills. The grades help focus schools on a clear set of expectations...
...From my perspective, I’m pretty amazed at the amount of progress that’s been made in literally a year in terms of students who have signed up and infrastructure built to create a body of oversight,” said HBS Professor Rakesh Khurana, who has been involved with the movement since its inception...