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...academic type. What I devoted much of the precious break to was preparing for my annual Rotisserie baseball draft, an event that I had been anticipating ever since the Chicago White Sox nailed down the last out in their shocking championship run last October, ushering in the cold, depressing vacuum of four months without baseball...
...Palestinian Authority. Sadly, only ten percent of the Palestinian state budget ever reached the residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip who desperately need basic government services. While Fatah members fattened their wallets and drained the funds that were meant to build a country, Hamas filled the vacuum by providing healthcare, education, and social-welfare services. Whereas Fatah was corrupt and hollow, the Palestinian population began to see Hamas as honest, disciplined, and effective. One of the best outcomes of the Hamas election is that it forces Fatah to reform or become irrelevant and uncompetitive...
...Republican failures on national security have opened up a political vacuum, the Democrats don't appear to be filling it. Ask a House or Senate Democratic campaign committee staffer who is the party's national face on security issues and you'll get this: Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island or Congresswoman Jane Harman of California. Reed is a serious, intellectually honest veteran and an expert on defense issues in the Senate, while Harman is an ambitious Harvard Law School graduate who is the ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Both are credible and respected...
...spurring dialogue about a wide range of issues facing the present day pan-African community. Conference chair Kelley N. Johnson ’02 said the event encouraged the use of different art forms as a vehicle for social change. “Art-making is never in a vacuum...If you intertwine certain things like social causes, political causes, and pride, [the message] comes across stronger than any PSA [public service announcement],” Johnson said. Students from the Black Mens Forum (BMF) and the Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa worked closely with members...
...five years to raise its minimum dropout age to 18 from 16. (Twenty-three states still let kids drop out at the younger age without parental consent.) Bridgeland, who co-wrote the Gates Foundation--funded report, supports the age hike but warns that states can't legislate in a vacuum. "These laws have to be coupled with strong support from the school and the community," he says. Underlying that conviction is perhaps the most surprising finding of the Gates survey: just how few dropouts report being overwhelmed academically. Fully 88% said they had passing grades in high school. Asked...