Word: specializing
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...circumnavigate national requirements for accredited schools, which govern student admission, fees and faculty salaries. Carnegie Mellon, for instance, now selects students jointly with its private Indian counterpart, and sets its own curriculum that is taught by local faculty. Under the proposed legislation, schools would continue to operate with those special concessions. But Sibal plans to make it mandatory for foreign universities to reserve seats for the underprivileged - a requirement that has not gone down well with many academicians. "If a country's aim is to educate the poor, then many foreign universities are not going to do that because [those...
...NATO alliance, which is managing the conflict. Rasmussen, 56, spent eight years in Copenhagen's top office, most notably shepherding Denmark through the Muslim cartoon uproar of 2005 - which he called the nation's greatest crisis since World War II. An avid Facebook user, Rasmussen recently visited a special-needs classroom following an online request from the teacher, a Facebook friend. To be successful in Brussels, he'll need the support of plenty of real-world allies, as well. (Read: "Why Pakistan Balks at the U.S. Afghanistan Offensive...
...malpractice insurance cripples doctors - and drives up the number of tests and procedures they perform in order to bulletproof themselves against lawsuits. Obama has said he is open to malpractice reform, but congressional Democrats haven't included it in their bills because trial lawyers are a major Democratic special-interest group. Another Democratic interest group, organized labor, has blocked the most logical and progressive way to fund a universal health-care system - eliminating the tax exclusion on health benefits and replacing it with a progressive tax credit. The health-care exclusion is, at approximately $250 billion, the single biggest...
That in-and-out attitude is frustrating Hutchison's would-be Senate successors, both Democrats and Republicans, who are chomping at the bit to get a definite step-down date from her. (Special elections in Texas are always a roll of the dice; Hutchison herself first won election to the Senate via one.) Democratic activist Karl-Thomas Musselman blogged on the Austin-based Burnt Orange Report after Wednesday's confusing news, "Sen. Hutchison continued toying with our emotions this afternoon with a clarification of her comments earlier today, which of course, coming from Hutchison means that she's actually about...
...President sat surrounded by his health-care brain trust on July 28, his words seemed unequal to the task before him. Dr. Bob Kocher, a special assistant at the National Economic Council, was on the cream-colored brocade couch across from Obama, laying out figures that showed what a sinkhole the country's health-care system has become: the U.S. spends more to get less than just about every other industrialized country. Still, Obama and his team are aware that the more Americans learn about how Washington proposes to cure that system, the more skeptical they are about the whole...