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...authors of an immigration reform bill that did more than just push heightened border security, McCain is the only G.O.P. candidate that has a chance to appeal to Hispanic groups, says Eduardo Gamarra, a specialist in Hispanic studies at Florida International University. "There are many people that think that Senator McCain is going to be a formidable candidate, not only because he's taken a middle-of-the-road approach, but because he's positioned to take votes from the Democrats," Gamarra said...
More than calendar tinkering, more than admissions reform, more than free beer or free shrinks or free As, the one change that might shake up our unhappy deadlock could be if we could all set aside three months for uselessness. Years of cubicled summers stretch out from graduation day to the day we are too dejected or decrepit to remain in them any longer; it may as well be now that we follow a whim, refuse a job, or ignore a class...
Fiddling with the things that surround us will only bring us so far in the game of reform. It is not the administration, not the faculty, not student groups or final clubs that keep us unhappy. We keep ourselves that way. Perhaps first on our list of demands should be that we unhand our own Junes, Julys, and Augusts...
...press release announcing the appointment on August 22. Reville has held many leadership positions in the education sector, including serving as a board member of the BOE, executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, and executive director of Harvard’s Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform. He is currently director of a policy master’s program at the GSE, as well as President of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy. Reville’s primary objectives as chairman of the BOE include helping underprivileged students to achieve on par with their better...
...international outcry presumably has not gone unnoticed by Burma's generals, who have unveiled their impression of political reform - a variety they call "discipline-flourishing democracy." On Sept. 3 the regime announced it had finally agreed to basic guidelines for a new constitution, 14 years after the generals summoned a national convention of handpicked delegates to draft a new charter. (The junta suspended the previous constitution in 1988.) But no timetable for elections has been set, nor is Suu Kyi's NLD part of the political process. Indeed, the new constitutional outline seems specifically designed to keep...