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...SEVIS fee, which loomed as a possibility even before the database became active, comes as the result of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which stipulates that such a database should be funded in part by fees rather than solely by government appropriation...
...challenges facing the free world have proved—for now—to be beyond the U.N.’s ability to solve. But this is not an indictment of the U.N. so much as a reason to continue the organization’s expansion and reform...
Perhaps it can be said that the U.N. has had its shortfalls as well. But those failures can point the world in the direction of positive U.N. reform. Almost universally, those who list U.N. “failures,” such as non-intervention in Rwanda, criticize the U.N. for its inability to act. This criticism misses the point. Just as U.N. successes are in large part the result of international enthusiasm for U.N. projects, so too are U.N. failures often the result of a lack of firm support and commitment from member nations...
...short, the dreaded SAT could actually help produce a national curriculum, a sweeping education reform enacted without the passage of a single law. In the process, the test itself will have to change to include questions more like classroom exercises and less like--well, less like SAT items. Two types of SAT questions are vanishing: those frustrating little analogies ("somnolent is to wakeful" as "graceful is to clumsy") and the quirky math items that ask you to compare two complex quantities (see chart on next page for an example). Instead of the venerable math and verbal sections, the test will...
...back yard. (I say “large fruit” because there is some dispute over whether it was a watermelon or a pumpkin.) But Burton was not driven off the fringes of his party; on the contrary, they made him chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee...