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...school teachers should be compelled to be on the job for 35 hours a week. "We have an absurd system where we have companies on the stock exchange that offer catch-up courses for students, and the people teaching those courses are public sector teachers," she said on a tape officially recording a closed meeting of provincial Socialist officials in Angers last January. "How is it they have time to do paid tutoring but no time to help kids in public school for free...
...Khanfar: There is no secret. There is no direct link between us and Al Qaeda to receive a tape. No one from them phones and calls and says, "Please, I am going to bring you a tape at this moment in time, so prepare for me to drop it wherever." We are a TV station. We are not an intelligence agency. In all cases, we received them through people we do not know. We cannot figure out who has delivered these tapes. If somebody brings me material, and I feel that this material is a scoop, I will...
...Guinea cloud forest. The sound swept away the Australian zoologist's exhaustion as he struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying not to blunder into one of the limestone sinkholes that dot the area...
...There was a period of time after 9/11 when the office was strained very heavily,” he said, adding that the office increased its staff to deal with the issue. After the attacks, students complained about long waits for visa processing. But cutting through red tape isn’t the only way that schools have increased foreign student enrollment. Heiser also credited graduate schools for improving outreach to prospective applicants. Dominguez said that Harvard is “probably doing more” foreign recruitment, though he added that the University’s efforts...
...supposed to strike hard,' will see this news and instead think, 'The national trend is to control the use of the capital punishment.' So I think more provincial courts will choose not to use the death penalty." Liu also believes that an adding another layer of red tape to executions may help lower the number of wrongful convictions...