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...said that rankings can shape students’ initial consideration of a school. But he also echoed McGrath’s comments, saying that while it is pleasing to be recognized, students’ final decisions do not depend on them. The universities are evaluated on six criteria: peer review, recruiter review, excellence in research based on citations, student to faculty ratio, international faculty ratio, and international student ratio. THES and QS Quacquarelli chose criteria that they thought could be evaluated regardless of location. Universities from 28 countries are included in the list. The top 10 institutions, however, are limited...
...suspension ruling stands to be finalized in December. According to Scherf, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has until Nov. 30 to review the suspension...
...Bill Clinton is subject to the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Under the law, all records are kept from the public for five years from the time a President leaves office. After that, every President has an option - and all of them have taken it - of withholding for further review six types of records for another seven years. Among the types of documents that can be subjected to further review are confidential advice between the President and his advisers. All three Presidents who have been covered by the act have invoked that option, though Cooper notes that Clinton's order...
...Before being made public, each document must be reviewed individually by a handful of overworked archivists. The archivists screen them for privacy issues (there are, for instance, lots and lots of Social Security numbers in all of this material) and potential breaches of national security. Once the archivists scrub them, the documents go to Bruce Lindsey, the longtime confidant whom Clinton designated to handle them. (Lindsey wrote in a recent memo, "Currently, none of the FOIA requests NARA has processed and provided for my review involve Senator Clinton.") And then they go to the current President, who under...
Detainees who remain in U.S. custody can try again for release in six months by going in person before the Multi-National Force Review Committee, a panel of U.S. officials who sometimes consult with Iraqi authorities on cases. This panel can offer a recommendation as well, but Stone still has the final say. Any detainee considered likely to take part in violence continues to be held, with an opportunity to appeal the decision every six months...