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...portion of The Plot compares passages from both sources in an effort to expose the obvious similarities and outright plagiaries, a comparison that the Times used to declare The Protocols a fake in 1921. The final, melancholy third of The Plot examines the enduring virus of Protocols, which, in spite of numerous, incontrovertible findings of being wholly forged, continues to be published the world over as truth. Eisner puts himself in the book, as the saddened pursuer of history who confronts a student group in San Diego touting Protocols as evidence of Jewish influence. The book ends on a vaguely...
...Supreme Court announced that it will review the Solomon Amendment, which was recently declared unconstitutional by a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Solomon Amendment, which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1994, requires universities receiving federal funding to allow military recruiters on campus, even in spite of potential conflict with universities anti-discriminatory policies. The law has been contested by both sides over the last decade, including a 2003 congressional movement that required schools to give military recruiters equal access to the students, and the 2004 appeal that declared the law unconstitutional...
...factor that aggravates brain drain is the pyramidal nature of education systems in most third-world countries. In Kenya for example, in any year, only about 15 biochemical engineers and 100 doctors graduate in the undergraduate system. This is in spite of having 800,000 students enroll in first grade annually. In this system, losing a biochemical engineer is a huge blow to the economy. Developing nations need to soften this effect by setting up vocational training institutes teaching modern skills such as computer programming, accounting, and hardware maintenance so as to harness this workforce. Nelson Mandela?...
Marsh’s right-hand man, co-captain Dennis Chira ’05, also attributed the team’s success to a great Sunday performance that came in spite of wet weather and tough odds...
...kind of Haddad’s point. The new president has made efforts to infuse the Signet with his self-described attitude of “openness.” In his presidential platform, he vowed to generate a sense of inclusiveness at the club “in spite of its exclusivity and prior culture of snobbery,” said a current member, who wished to remain anonymous...