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...Leaders around the world need to stand up, speak the truth, and inspire confidence in people that we will get out of this situation,” said former Ebay CEO Meg Whitman, who received one of the achievement awards...
...fact that you probably found yourself meeting the criteria for internet addiction shouldn’t send you running towards treatment. It should suggest that the very terms of internet addiction could stand to be redefined. Which is good news for all of us, because I have a fun Youtube link...
...unable to test Murphy.Cornell picked up its play in the eighth minute, when junior forward Eva Dixon put a good chance over the crossbar. Freshman midfielder Abigail Apistolas followed by forcing a good save from Harvard junior keeper Lauren Mann.Fortune then favored the Crimson, as Murphy could only stand and watch as a cross from the right side of the goal box hit off a defender and fell into her net for Harvard’s first score.Harvard coach Ray Leone’s urging of his team to play faster was audible from the stands...
...system is not working, and the problem may not be with the total amount of resources so much as the way in which they are allocated. Given the high stakes, the most destructive response to the current crisis in education is complacency. Fortunately, The Equity Project makes a strong stand for challenging accepted methods of pedagogy and developing innovative ways to teach some of America’s most at-risk students. In addition, The Equity Project presents a model for higher, more effectively structured teacher salaries. In contrast to the appallingly low pay offered at most schools across...
...while critics say he was too cautious, at best. Before becoming Pope, Pius, then known by his birth name, Eugenio Pacelli, served as both the Vatican envoy to Nazi Germany and later as the Vatican's secretary of state. Indeed, even while Benedict and most of the church hierarchy stand firmly behind Pius, Italian Jesuit scholars say they have recently turned up documents showing that Pacelli's secretary of state office in 1938 put its focus on saving Jews who converted to Catholicism, a revelation likely to reinforce opposition to Pius...