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...should not require civics courses as part of the Core. Texas is the only state in the country that mandates college graduates from public institutions complete six credit-hours in American Government to graduate, and as an instructor in this field, I can attest to the level of ignorance rampant in my classroom among freshmen and sophomores...
...worry is real. Indonesia faces many of the same problems, such as rampant corruption, cited by Thailand's coupmakers as pretexts for seizing power. And like their Burmese counterparts, the Indonesian armed forces present themselves as the only institution that can hold a nation together?in this case, a fractious archipelago of 220 million people. Despite reforms designed to keep it out of politics, the Indonesian military remains highly resistant to the principle of civilian control...
...programs are often incorrectly understood to be binding contracts that lock students into attending their institution of choice, should they be accepted. In this case, perception is more damaging than fact. It is commonly known that misinformation and lack of individual attention to detail are both rampant problems in poorer, overcrowded and understaffed school systems. Often all that is understood is that a huge proportion of a class is filled up during the early round, followed by the assumption that acceptance in that round means the loss of the opportunity to compare financial aid packages. We also maintain that early...
...After rampant consolidation created Big Radio several years ago, its 1,600 or so independent cousins are still broadcasting, serving up some of the most innovative homegrown fare on the air today...
...religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been pending in the U.S. courts for more than three years...