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...soul of the Democratic Party, predicts Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, a moderate advocacy group, it won't be the usual skirmish between the liberals and moderates of the professional political class in Washington but one between the Washington insiders on one side and the rank-and-file activists spread out across the country on the other. "What's changed over the past two years is that activist Democrats believe that Republicans are venal people," says Rosenberg. These activists "are going to be very intolerant of Democrats in Washington who cooperate with the Republicans. There's going...
That same year, he would also publish a prose work, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972), which the Swedish Academy called “a literary work of the first rank...
Some other American universities, however, benefited from the international peer review and achieved higher rankings than in U.S. News. The University of California Berkeley, 21st on the U.S. News list, was propelled to a second place rank overall in The Times Higher due to its first-place finish in the peer review category. Harvard came in second in this category...
...Times Higher Education Supplement soon plans to rank the schools by discipline in order to help those which do not necessarily do well in the citations category. They also plan to expand their data collection for subsequent rankings...
...called for additional funding to make AP courses more available to low-income students. A large selection of AP courses attended by a broad swath of the student body is widely seen as a measure of excellence for U.S. high schools and figures prominently in formulas that attempt to rank public high schools. The more active the AP program, the higher the rank and, often, the higher the school district's real estate values...