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...panel of four Iraqi academics, including the President of the University of Baghdad, painted a bleak picture of the state of Iraqi higher education on Monday evening, but said they were confident that a stable system of education could be rebuilt in the war-torn country...
...Harvard never had a strong commitment to the Indian College, and in 1698 it was torn down owing to neglect. (University records say that it was “altogether uselesse”). Harvard cannibalized the building that year, using its bricks to build the first Stoughton Hall...
...current policy—which was adopted in 2003 and prevents students from receiving credit or funding for studies, internships, or travel done any of those 29 countries—has been attacked by some for being too restrictive. The list includes war-torn countries like the Sudan and Iraq, but also relatively safer countries such as Israel, the Phillipines, and Nigeria...
...cuts straight to Lincoln as a young man, showing him as creative and vulnerable, at once vastly ambitious and preoccupied with doubts and concerns about his future. Similarly, Guelzo's intellectual biography, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, shows a man wrestling with the basic issues of fate and free will, torn between the Calvinism of his youth and the Enlightenment doctrines of freedom. Michael Burlingame's forthcoming multivolume biography will add a tall stack of new documents to the record, including hundreds of newspaper articles that, Burlingame has determined, Lincoln wrote anonymously in his early political career. The articles shed...
...dies. Everyone acknowledges that those are big issues for humans to cope with, but they're not that many of them. The other kind of stress that hurts you is not the stress at work, it's not the stress from driving- it's the nagging unfinished tasks, the torn screen door that you walk past every single day. You know you have to deal with it, but you never get around...