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...have not studied Latin or Greek in the past. But as concentrations seem to be becoming more open, the General Education program may be having the opposite effect. As faculty continues to make curricular changes, professors have noticed that fewer students have been taking electives—an unintended result of increased requirements and options like a secondary field...
...picture of you and your daughter in protest? Yeah. Initially, it was to say, "Hey Facebook, don't classify breast-feeding pictures as obscene." So many people joined, it kind of just became a network for women to find help and ask questions. I think that's a great result. Since then, it's really grown. We've gained like 60,000 members just in the last few weeks...
...landslide reminded Awami League supporters of the party's huge win in the 1970 poll, another pivotal election. Bangladesh was still East Pakistan; when West Pakistan refused to accept the result a brutal military crackdown followed and, eventually, the 1971 war of independence. That isn't the case now. The military has accepted the voters' verdict, which was delivered as 200,000 local and international election observers looked on, although the opposition has raised objections to what it says are voting irregularities...
There are other strategic downsides to Israel's launching a military offensive in Gaza at this time. Israel has acted in response to pressures to protect its citizenry from rocket attacks, but it is probable that such attacks will continue and possibly intensify as a result. That will draw Israeli ground troops into Gaza, where they, too, will suffer casualties at the hands of Palestinian gunmen. The Palestinian civilian death toll will be far higher, which will, in turn, isolate Israel on the diplomatic front - even those Arab regimes that would have been discreetly pleased to see Hamas dealt...
...after decades of inefficient centralized control, corruption, cronyism, wars and sanctions. "It's almost as if Saddam froze the clocks, froze the calendars in 1980, and nothing moved," says Terrence L. Barnich, a senior U.S. adviser for law, policy and regulatory affairs in the Iraq Transition Assistance Office. The result, Barnich says, is a generation of managers and technocrats cut off from how business is done in the rest of the world, weaned by a top-down regime where orders came down to the ministries and provincial governments and suggestions or complaints rarely (if ever) went...