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...bring themselves or their dangerously intoxicated peers to University Health Services (UHS) from disciplinary action. But the policy also makes student group leaders liable if the intoxicated student was drinking at a student group event. This policy—which encompasses all student groups, but is presumably meant to target final clubs and other social groups—provides a disincentive for students to bring their fellow drinkers to UHS for fear of getting the leaders of their group in trouble with the College. Formulated without the input of any students, the new policy will be both a danger...
...That's putting it lightly. It's routine these days to use the Internet to call friends, download music, shop and bank; Web-savvy Estonians even vote and settle their taxes online. So, while Denial of Service attacks typically only target pre-selected websites, if they're the ones we're clicking on most, "we're that much more paralyzed," says Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet governance and regulation expert at the University of Oxford...
...foreigners and possibly tens of thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped since the fall of Saddam Hussein. But it is unusual for the Mahdi Army to kidnap foreigners - that tends to be the work of Sunni terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. And Shi'ite militias typically don't target ministries run by their fellow-sectarians. The Ministry of Higher Educaton was run by a Sunni. But the Finance Minister is a prominent Shi'ite, Bayan Jabr Solagh. What is more, he's the former Interior Minister under whose watch the Iraqi police was thoroughly infiltrated by Shi'ite militias...
There are, however, two surefire ways to hit the 2014 target. One is for schools to cheat on the tests--a frighteningly commonplace solution, according to David Berliner, a respected education scholar at Arizona State University and a co-author of a new book, Collateral Damage, that documents the cheating trend. The other solution is to make the state tests easier, a phenomenon known among educators as "the race to the bottom." Philadelphia's Vallas likes to joke that there are two paths to success for his city's schools: improve instruction for students "or give them the Illinois tests...
...Such ostentation is rare these days, since any display of wealth is likely to attract the attention of criminal gangs and kidnappers. Besides, mourning has itself become potentially deadly: Sunni suicide bombers have been known to target Shi'ite wakes, and Shi'ite militias have attacked Sunni funeral processions. So when Azhour went to collect her husband's body from Baghdad's central morgue, only her father and brother volunteered to go with her. They put Amer's body in a simple wooden coffin, strapped it onto the roof of the car and drove as quickly as possible...