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...them that the fee is opt-out and therefore students obviously need a method for making the decision to withhold funding if they so desire,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Again, I do not understand why the new e-bill does not reflect the content of the paper bill. It is absolutely unacceptable that an optional fee—any optional fee—be presented as a required payment...
...quest for talent: Differing idioms in how the game is played, organized and coached across the continents over the past century has created a reality where today's winning formula requires blending of a variety of these traditions. But at a business level, also, the clubs are beginning to reflect the impact of globalization. A quarter century ago, the best-capitalized clubs, who could buy the contracts of the best players from lesser clubs and offer them more lucrative deals, were those who could fill the biggest stadiums week in and week out - hence the anomaly that Spain and Italy...
...book Art in North Korea: "Obviously the Social Realist style limits their acceptability to those who judge art from the point of view of mainstream Western aesthetics." Yet it's precisely this alien quality that makes the Rotterdam show so intriguing. As De Ceuster notes, the exhibit doesn't reflect the reality of North Korea: "All it portrays is an ideological image" meant to be stamped on the minds of a downtrodden people. Instead of revealing higher truths, this is the art of distortion, designed to prop up a higher power...
...barely stomach our country’s recent foreign policy—let alone identify myself with it. But for many non-Americans, our government’s recent policies reflect a larger society that is little concerned about anything outside its own borders. Between our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, our past opposition to both the Kyoto agreement on global warming and the International Criminal Court, and now Iraq, it was hard to argue with the guy. As The Economist noted just this week, “in private, much of Europe’s political class...
...balance who might have been planning a spectacular attack for June 30th. Of course, administration officials are putting their best spin on it, saying "it shows this government is ready... . What this demonstrates is that they were fully ready to take control." Maybe. But it seems to more accurately reflect the deteriorating security situation...