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Since the agreement monitors Mexicanimplementation of environmental rules and includesfines in case the Mexican government violates theguidelines, NAFTA is likely to strengthen Mexicanenvironmental policy, Keohane said...
...Greenville, South Carolina, hundreds of parents hurried through dinner and headed for the local school-board meeting. Those who could not find seats flowed into the hallways, where TV monitors captured a heated debate over a proposed program called "Framework for Learning." Supporters argued that this curriculum would strengthen reasoning skills; opponents countered that it was a veiled effort to sabotage home-taught moral and religious values. For many of those in the room and in the hall, the controversy evoked a here-we-go-again feeling that has pervaded every board meeting in town since January, when three Christian...
...Crimson's recent series of articles on Expository Writing distorts my views as well as those of several others who were interviewed. The program's teaching effectiveness and the efforts, both past and current, to strengthen the program further have been systematically overlooked or played down. The Crimson has incorrectly interpreted judicious reserve on the part of a number of those interviewed as a sign of inaction or apathy...
Rudenstine emphasized the need to strengthen teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Harvard should hire 80 new faculty members over the next five years, and increase funding for the training of teachers, the report said...
...addition to suberb acting. "La Strada" is visually stunning. Fellini uses warm sepia-washed black and white film throughout, and alternates between a soft and hard focus lense filter. Very rarely does he use either pure black or white. In a Bergmanesque fashion, he places the camera strategically to strengthen the film's allegorical strains. Gelsomina is always seen from slightly above, as if she were being watched by a guardian angel. During an Easter parade the camera looks upwards, circling around the massive crosses to emphasize their grandeur. Fellini then once again switches to following Gelsomina's passage through...