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...after two years of research, the group instead came out with recommendations to strengthen school curricula and tighten teaching standards, mandating a greater federal focus on education...
Instead of possibly weakening Title IX on the basis of unfounded claims, the commission should strengthen it. The harsh reality is that Title IX remains one of the most violated civil-rights laws in the country. Too many schools still fail to give women equal opportunity in athletics. While 54 percent of the students at large universities and colleges are women, these schools give their female athletes only 41 percent of the opportunities to play, 33 percent of their total operating budgets, and 30 percent of recruiting dollars. These statistics do not nearly fulfill the requirement of equity in Title...
Marcel A.Q. Laflamme ’04, the only other man who regularly attends RUS meetings, says he discussed Zahr’s candidacy with him and they concluded a male presence on the board could only strengthen the group...
...work for unfriendly foreign governments. A senior official at the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), speaking on background last week to The New York Times, confirmed that the Chinese government recruits a handful of students in the U.S. to gather information in disciplines like nuclear physics, in order to strengthen China’s weapons arsenal...
...establishment of a Palestinian state on that nation's East Bank. No one in the government ever actually says these things publicly (although some American Jewish leaders do). Usually, the dream is expressed in the mildest possible terms: "I have high hopes that the removal of Saddam will strengthen our democratic allies in the region," Senator Joe Lieberman told me last week. He may be right. But there is also a chance that the exact opposite will happen, that war will nourish the Arab mirror fantasy: the fantasy of martyrdom, and a continuing romantic struggle that will only end when...