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Your article on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice included a photo of her with an Afghan girls' soccer team [March 28]. Therein lies an inspiring story. Those girls play soccer on a field that was cleared of land mines with the help of Roots of Peace, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that raises money from U.S. middle and high school students. The State Department works with 50 NGOs to raise money from private sources for land-mine removal, augmenting the nearly $1 billion the U.S. government has contributed since...
...couldn’t find anyone doing the latter outside Yankee Stadium, so there I was, relegated to the right field bleachers and the chaos contained therein...
...offered free courses in Europe or at top-flight schools like Smith College. In addition, some 90 four-year schools, including Smith and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have agreements with Miami Dade that, in some cases, guarantee its honors grads acceptance right into their junior classes. Therein lies a bonus benefit of the honors boom: as the Supreme Court has made it harder for university admissions offices to use minority quotas to diversify their student populations, the programs at these two-year schools are graduating more black and Latino students whose talents and preparation mean they...
...therein lies my solution to the final club problem; gentle but firm social punishment. If you are part of the silent majority that hates final clubs, speak up—loudly but not cruelly. When you see members congregated in front of their mansions, look at them like the anachronism they are. Make like the anarchists did recently and express yourself through chalk drawings on their driveways (“This club is elitist” for instance). Refuse to be a date for a punch event. Stand in front of a music-blasting club at 3am with...
...setting wages nationally rather than at the company level. Germany's trade unions have staunchly resisted efforts to rewrite labor laws on these matters. Schröder's refusal to address these structural problems, says Mayer, "shows that the government is not capable of taking on the unions." And therein lies Schröder's bind. According to the Forsa polling institute, the approval rating for Schröder's Social Democratic Party (spd) has fallen to a dismal 31% from 35% since January, while the cdu's has increased from 37% to 44% over the same period. With national...