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...just that security contractors are allowed to use lethal force and not worry about going to jail; a Western security contractor will make in a week what an Iraqi might make in a year. Private security contractors are a humiliation equal to the humiliations that provoked the Boxer Rebellion in China or drove Iranians to overthrow the Shah. Security contractors may be keeping our officials alive, but they are not winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis...
...JOINING THE REBELLION...
...More schools are joining the rebellion against the rankings because more people are realizing that the rankings are a ridiculous sham that wastes colleges' money and resources," Alexandra Robbins, author of "The Overachievers: The Secret Life of Driven Kids" wrote in an e-mail...
...Nicaragua, a movement that started off channeling youth rebellion into the violent overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 is once again the governing party. And in many poor neighborhoods, the Sandinista Front has more street cred than the local youth gang...
...last year. Williams edged out Amherst as the best liberal-arts college. Again, just like the list that came out 12 months ago. Except for one dramatic shift (which I will get to shortly), the new rankings don't look much different from previous lists, despite the recent organized rebellion against the magazine's long-criticized method of pitting school against school. So far this year, 62 college presidents have signed a letter pledging to stop filling out the U.S. News reputational survey, which accounts for 25% of a school's overall score...