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Bush claims that action against Iraq would strengthen America’s efforts to fight terror, but such an argument is difficult to believe. Even the U.S., with its stratospheric spending on military and intelligence, has limited resources; a war against Iraq would require a large proportion of those resources...
This year’s budget also earmarks 67 percent of the council’s funds to student groups—a 4 percentage point increase over last year’s proportion.
It is an embarrassing open secret that, contrary to his hallowed position in the secular sainthood of freedom, Abraham Lincoln was never a particularly passionate abolitionist. But he freed the slaves, and regardless of his real reasons for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, aren’t we glad he did...
California has a promising approach. Four years ago, the California State University system began booting students who did not complete their remedial work within a year. Last year 2,277 students were told they couldn't re-enroll unless they completed remedial classes elsewhere. But Cal State is also making...
But even this opposition has been scant, Peters said, since Malawi is one of the world's poorest countries and a significant proportion of its population are farmers who must struggle to achieve financial security.