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...Tonics—and their famed lime-green socks—will be taking Washington, D.C. by storm from Jan. 16-24. Dins President Ari C. Peña ’10 is looking forward to having “a week away just to get to know each other better, and have some man time,” he said...
Dins Business Manager and baritone Dillon C. Powers ’11 said most of the gigs they’ll be singing at are private, but there may be a chance for students in D.C. to attend a show at George Washington University. He said students can check Facebook and the Dins’ Web site to see if that show will be happening...
...nation's college-age students in some form of post-secondary education - and tuition costs as high as they've ever been - we don't really have a handle on what students learn at university. Or whether they're learning anything at all. Kevin Carey, policy director at the Washington think tank Education Sector, believes that many colleges do a bad job of 1) teaching students and 2) getting them to graduate. An essay he wrote for the December issue of Democracy is making waves in the higher-ed world because it describes how a lot of colleges are keeping...
...Yemeni detainees presented a legal problem. Not only would it slow the closure of Gitmo, but the Justice Department concluded that six of the Yemenis under consideration were likely to win cases challenging their detention that they had brought in district court in Washington. Earlier last year, a Yemeni won his case and was repatriated and released. The Defense Department said it was comfortable releasing the six, as were the other departments, so in the end, Obama's national-security team sent them home. It is unclear whether they remain incarcerated in Yemen. (See pictures of the last days...
...civil strife that would be spurred by any attempt to remove settlers from the West Bank. Israeli public opinion prevented Netanyahu from accepting the settlement-freeze demand, and the primary factor that brings him to the negotiating table may simply be the need to stay on side with Washington. (See 25 people who mattered...