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Certainly, there were some positive changes implemented this past year. Congress and President Bush created Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants which offered financial incentives for students studying science, math, or certain foreign languages. These $4,000 grants wisely encourage undergrads to explore academic areas the U.S. is currently perceived to be lagging behind the rest of the world. Congress also passed an initiative allowing purely online colleges to receive federal funding. While an “e-ducation” might not be the same as attending college in person, the legislation recognizes that not everyone...
...multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with a linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it "racist...
...true, there can be no excuse. Not stress. Not anger. Not frustration. But this incident raises more disturbing questions. Have there been other such incidents? Does it indicate progressive decay in the standards of discipline in our forces? On top of Abu Ghraib, what moral authority do our forces retain? Can we recover our standing in the eyes of the Iraqis? And what will the ramifications of this incident be for U.S. power worldwide...
...wins approval of football broadcasts a day later.10/5: School of education faces budget cuts of $63,000 when $300,000 bequest expires in June.10/9: Local alumni begin fundraising $80,000 to restore Memorial Hall tower. The Divinity School must get $675,000 before the end of the year to retain $250,000 given by the late Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont.10/10: The student council endorses a petition, signed by more than 900 students, in favor of allowing women guests in Houses at 1 p.m. on weekdays, three hours earlier than the previous rule.10/20: It is discovered that 10 students graduated from...
...Israeli negotiating position is so far from even the moderate Palestinian consensus suggests that such an agreement is unlikely, even if the two sides were brought to the table right now. In any case, it's no wonder Israel prefers a unilateral redrawing of boundaries, since it would certainly retain more West Bank territory than it would in any negotiated agreement. But a unilateral move to annex West Bank land is almost certain to be strongly rejected by almost all of the international community, putting the U.S. in an uncomfortable position...