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...political will and the corruption and conservatism curb the country's immense potential. I was recently in Australia, where I met an enthusiastic band of young Indians whose nationalism was intense. Yet with all their enthusiasm, you could detect the frustrations of lagging behind because of lack of progress in social reform. Sloganeering and rhetoric are just that. I hope that young Indians find the strength to correct the country's deficiencies and make it truly great. Subhash Suthar, SITTINGBOURNE, ENGLAND...
...indicative of how very badly President Bush needs a victory - any victory - that he plans to make a rare trip to Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon to attend a weekly Republican luncheon. There, he will make a personal appeal to senators on behalf of his bipartisan immigration reform bill, the progress of which came to a sudden and surprising halt late Thursday night after a failed attempt to bring the legislation to a vote. While Bush has previously leaned on Vice President Cheney to make these kinds of congressional entreaties (the President last sat in on a Senate policy lunch...
...have made good progress in the search for a new dean and identified some very promising candidates," Faust said in the statement...
...years of teaching English, I have learned that plagiarism is a symptom of disengaged learning; inaccurate source citation; and poor reading, writing and organization skills. Teachers must demand not just the product but also the process by giving intellectually challenging assignments, monitoring progress and holding students accountable for their work. Furthermore, students must believe that teachers will help them become ethical, mature citizens and are not just out to catch instances of plagiarism, whether intentional or unintentional...
...That progress, in Beardstown and in similar towns throughout the U.S., is imperiled by illegality. Cargill has long struggled to rid its rolls of illegal workers who are using false documentation. Most notably, a rumor that another raid was imminent swept through the night shift last month. Those workers who had false papers had to make a decision: stay and risk detention and deportation if the rumor were true, or leave and expose themselves as illegal workers. Cargill wouldn't comment on the incident, but locals say that dozens fled the plant that night and were fired or quit after...