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...don’t think we can do school reform and say it stops at the school doors,” said Associate Professor of Education and Psychology Gil G. Noam, who chairs the program. “The whole point is to strengthen the learning side of afterschool programs without making them like schools...
...will strengthen our commitment to the opportunity for a positive Ivy League athletic experience, within the context—and serving the goals—of a liberal undergraduate education,” said Rawlings in a press release...
Bush claims that action against Iraq would strengthen America’s efforts to fight terror, but such an argument is difficult to believe. Even the U.S., with its stratospheric spending on military and intelligence, has limited resources; a war against Iraq would require a large proportion of those resources that would be better employed searching for al Qaeda. America also has a limited supply of international goodwill; many other nations are still unhappy about the proposed action against Iraq, and the U.S. needs their cooperation in intelligence gathering and operations against al Qaeda more than it needs their support...
...voice among many in Megawati's divided cabinet, where some ministers have been urging a crackdown on extremist groups. The Bali bombing is likely to strengthen their case by alienating the Indonesian public, for whom the impact of the catastrophic blow to the nation's all-important tourist industry will be felt most acutely in their pocket books. It's also a direct challenge both to Megawati's own regime and its relationship with the West, as well as to the military's ability to maintain domestic security...
...probably keen to play that sort of a role, but they don't have more than 30,000 armed men. And U.S. planners seem to be moving away from giving them that sort of role. They'd love to be trained and armed by the U.S. because that would strengthen their position in the post-Saddam scenario...