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...military regimes. The United States and Europe not only overlooked human right abuses, but they actively helped the regimes and often trained repressors. Long gone were the Atlantic System dreams from the ashes of WWII promising a world based on international law and respect. Fear of communism made everything valid. Thirty years ago, was the world really that different?Today, the Red Scare has been replaced by radical Islam and nuclear proliferation. Look at the news, and you’ll find that every large issue in America is related to security in some way. The Dubai port deal...
...researcher Jeffrey Dusek. About 43 percent of American adults have prayed for their own health, and 25 percent have had others pray for them, according to a 2004 survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Terri Cisse, a graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, questioned the validity of the study. “I’ve seen firsthand from working at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute how people are consoled by prayer. Prayer is so transcendent and metaphysical that it can’t be measured scientifically,” she said. “There...
...lucrative research careers are exactly the type of passionate instructors that Harvard should seek to attract.Second, the eight-year rule institutionalizes the fact that the curriculum rests in the hands of Harvard’s regular faculty, not some permanent “lesser faculty.” While valid, this concern is not enough reason to impose an eight-year restriction. Instead, Harvard should adopt the same policy as Yale, Brown, and a number of other schools, which offer short contracts that can be renewed contingent on the school’s need and the lecturer?...
...process of accreditation. This process, which is carried out at pre-ordained intervals by a regional governing board, is supposed to evaluate whether an academic institution is indeed academically institutionalized enough. If a school has accreditation, it has already passed the tests and has been certified as a valid educational center. Even more basically, every state has an interest in ensuring that its colleges and universities are performing and educating their students. A state with schools that are failing will have a vested interest in fixing these schools because educated citizens and workers make the state stronger; there...
...verify a prospective employee's status. An employer who signed up for the system could call an 800 number and provide the name, Social Security number or the alien ID number of a new hire. The employer would receive either a confirmation that the number and name were valid or an indication that called for further checking...