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...senate's higher-education committee, has proposed merging historically black public universities with mostly white schools nearby to cut administrative costs. Among other drawbacks, critics say, the move could mean fewer scholarships, larger classes and teacher layoffs. But race is the thorniest issue by far. "We've made tremendous progress in Georgia," says Harp. "I just think it's the right time to get rid of this vestige of legal segregation." (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...players and I do not have it as hard as Betty did in an era when women's sports were barely a blip on the radar, we have derived our own mission from the work of Betty and the other incredible first women of golf. Even with all the progress we have made since the LPGA's inception in 1950, there are always more goals, more opportunities and more ways of giving back. Betty never rested or lost sight of her vision. And for that reason, neither should...
...election will be, if anything, even less inclined than the current government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to conclude a two-state peace agreement with the Palestinian leadership. (Of course, the year of talks about talks between Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas failed to yield any progress.) Meanwhile, the Gaza war cemented the stature of Hamas as the dominant political force among Palestinians...
...signal the new Administration's intent to prioritize peacemaking efforts. But the events of the past six weeks have confirmed that the Israeli-Palestinian peace policy bequeathed by the Bush Administration is dead in the water. If the new Administration is to make good on its promise of progress toward a two-state peace agreement, it will need the sort of thorough policy review currently being undertaken on its Iran policy - and a fresh set of ideas...
Hausammann wrote that the program aims to “both offer generous incentives to qualifying employees who may wish to retire and help the University make progress in reducing overall compensation costs...