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...Especially in the months before we got to know him, he was appealing to so many different groups that everyone saw what they wanted to," Hovde says. So instead of perfecting Obama impressions, the Second City's seven-actor ensemble each took turns portraying the Obama the performers wanted to see (white ladies included). "We tried to capture whatever it is we want to find in him, from gay Obama to homeless Obama to college-student-partying Obama," adds Hovde...
...best places to launch a career, Kopp was named one of 2008’s 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, and Education Week wrote about two TFA alumni who advised the Obama campaign.Last year Teach for America received a record number of 24,700 applications. Three thousand, seven hundred people were selected and joined the program. Thirty-three of them were from Harvard.‘HAPPY AND STABLE’Those seniors who have already committed to TFA say they are eager to begin their two-year tenures with the program.Elizabeth A. Texeira...
...seminar requirements—along with their departmental electives. Under the new proposal students are freed from these rigid requirements. Instead, non-honors concentrators would be expected to take one course from each of the four “common-ground modules” outlined in the proposal and seven electives.This type of revamped program of study is a crucial step toward keeping the humanities relevant and alluring to undergraduates. As higher education becomes more and more specialized and the job market becomes increasingly competitive, the temptation to concentrate in a subject with “real-world?...
...bring the rapist to justice have been borne little fruit. In an interview with TIME this summer, President Karzai was told about Sweeta's case and promised to look into it, but Sweeta's sister Saleha had already given up on the government, and wondered if the past seven years of foreign intervention have brought any progress at all to Afghanistan. "If the Taliban were still here, that rapist would have already been executed by now. It would have been a lesson for all," she says. "If there is no law, and the government does not listen to people...
Faced with a rapidly spreading insurgency that threatens to overturn seven years of incremental progress in Afghanistan - a survey released Monday by the International Council on Security and Development reports that the Taliban are present in 72% of the country - the U.S. and its allies are struggling to find a new strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. President George W. Bush has announced that about 4,500 more soldiers will be sent there early in the new year, but that is a fraction of what General David McKiernan, head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, has said that he needs to successfully conduct...