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...second important decision of the Bachelet government was to invest billions from this fund in the development of the skills and capacities of its people. On September 3, 2008, the Bachelet administration established procedures for its Bicentennial System to Train Advanced Human Capital Abroad (“bicentennial” because it marks Chile’s declaration of independence in 1810). This program, known as “Becas Chile,” is on scholarships...
...Breffny Morgan ’08, Harvard’s own candidate in the second season of The Apprentice Ireland, has been fortunately spared these two words...
...sectionals – the team only has to beat the Dayton School for the Deaf and Jane Adams Academy, a “halfway house for girls just getting out of juvie,” to make it to regionals. (This is the show’s second unkind potshot at deaf teens, although if this is the same fictional school that humiliated McKinley High’s football team, then maybe our heroes shouldn’t celebrate just yet.) Emma and Will decide to hold a guys vs. girls contest to keep the kids motivated, with...
...soon enough, appeals to his patriotism convinced Dickerson, and for the past three years, he has taught special-education classes at Denver's East High School. He is just one of the thousands of older, second-career military retirees (the average age at first hire is 44) whom the program has channeled into the teaching profession. But as successful as the 15-year-old program has been, supporters say it needs to enlarge its talent pool in order to attract the waves of younger troops returning from hot spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan and making the not-always-easy...
...military, but having a six-month strategic review is not one of them. No doubt, the President should have spoken with McChrystal more than once over the summer. The military's mistake was going ahead with a flawed battle plan that did not secure Kandahar, the second largest Afghan city and the fulcrum of the insurgency. That mistake made the six-month strategy review necessary, as did two other factors: the disastrously corrupt Afghan presidential election and a vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which has resulted in the killing of more than half...