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Advocates for the status quo worry that students who are forced into community colleges for remedial classes will never make it to four-year universities. They point to studies showing that only about a quarter of community-college students transfer to four-year schools within five years. "Some of our most at-risk students will have a longer pipeline to get to the four-year institutions, and, unfortunately, not as many will make it," says Melodye Wiens, a remedial-reading instructor who is president of the National Association for Developmental Education. Others argue that states shouldn't ask students...
...Bangladesh's more radical Islamic groups are coming out from the forests. The former Burmese rebel says three of the camps near Cox's Bazar have closed since October?not because of the kind of governmental pressure being applied in Pakistan, but because the militants feel safe enough to transfer their operations to like-minded madrasahs, some of them in the capital. On May 9 and 10, 63 representatives of nine Islamic groups?including Rohingya forces, the Islamic Oikya Jote and the ULFA?met in Ukhia to form the Bangladesh Islamic Manch, a united council under HUJI's leadership...
...European Convention now meeting under the leadership of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, delegates from around Europe, including the candidate countries, are exploring how to overhaul the E.U. to make it closer to voters and more effective. Its result, believes Liberal M.E.P. Andrew Duff, will be "a transfer of sovereignty" to the E.U.'s central institutions - which unless handled deftly could give nations with painful memories of Soviet-style diktats another reason to question where the E.U. bus is taking them. That bus must first navigate the Irish speed bump. The danger is that with a no vote...
Carr’s initiatives have also heavily concerned his home state of Idaho, where he has invested in human rights, including his purchase of the Aryan Nations’ headquarters and its later transfer to a university, the nearby building of a human rights institute and the construction and dedication of an Anne Frank memorial...
Ultimately, before Bill Clinton makes any more speeches about regime change in Iraq, he ought to review the facts—including his previous assurances about Hussein’s willingness to deploy or transfer weapons of mass destruction and his own administration’s culpability in the ongoing “misery” of the Iraqi people. But given the former president’s tendency toward selective memory and self-reverence, don’t count...