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...have,” Fitzsimmons said. “The kind of information they use is publicly available, and it’s important for us to provide such information.” Thacker, a former high school guidance counselor, said witnessing the suffering of applicants motivated him to seek an alternative to the existing system. Thacker’s project aims to provide “robust information and self-diagnostic tools” for students to select colleges. He wants to create a non-profit mechanism that is “free and open to all?...
...policies in place, trade hawks in the U.S., Europe and Japan wonder why they should throw themselves open to investment arms controlled by governments that limit foreign access to their own markets. Beijing, they point out, still has strict limits and an opaque review process for foreign companies that seek to buy significant stakes in many Chinese companies. "I'm sorry, they keep us out of their countries when they see fit, so we're just supposed to roll over and let them buy whatever they want here?" says the U.S. Congressional staffer. "Why would we do that...
...news may be bleakest for those who hoped the country might tire of division and acrimony and be ready to come together behind common concerns. Voters in the two parties remain deeply divided over the qualities they seek in a President and the concerns that most worry them. Many more Republicans than Democrats are looking for a candidate with strong moral character, while Democrats are much more likely to seek someone with good judgment who cares about people like them. National security is set solidly at the front of G.O.P. minds, while Democrats continue to focus on economic issues. There...
...Chvez was still losing by less than 2 percentage points. But the CNE, seemingly overwhelmed by the close contest, delayed its announcement while Chvez waited for the margin to drop below 1%, at which point he'd seek a recount (as Al Gore did in Florida in 2000, he said later). But the margin barely budged, and the opposition started seething in the streets, fearing fraud. Around midnight, Chvez's ex-defense minister, Raul Baduel, who opposed the reforms, warned that Chvez was flirting with popular unrest. By 1 a.m., says a government insider, Vice President...
King Albert II has asked the country's caretaker Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt, to seek a solution to Belgium's existential crisis. Yet that task seems sapped of any great urgency as life goes on without a national government. The trains run on time, the beer flows cold and plentiful, and the Belgian national soccer team still can't score. The drifting apart of Belgium's linguistic communities could augur the end for a country once hailed as a model of compromise and coexistence. Hoeilaart's elders have clearly had enough of that model. But no one knows what...