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...Barack Obama's election. "All these people came, in a wonderful mood," he says. "Then they sat down and were faced with the shenanigans of the old gang, behaving in their usual dreadful way. You could feel in the audience a sense of 'We don't want this.' " Within weeks, though, the audience's cynicism had returned, and the play drew cheers. Hare's great theme - power and the moral compromises it demands - is one that will...
...Although U.S. college enrollment has climbed, college completion rates have not. Only a third of students who enroll in community colleges - which educate nearly half the undergraduates in the U.S. - get a degree within six years. Hence the interest in this study among such philanthropic powerhouses as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which helped fund the MDRC study. (MDRC, by the way, was created in 1974 by the Ford Foundation and a group of federal agencies; originally named the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, it now goes only by the abbreviation...
...battle. AIDS strikes people indiscriminant of sexual orientation, and is ironically exacerbated by homophobia.Overall, the chances of the activists being released are thin. But they are even thinner if cultural context is disregarded. Far in the future there might be a point in which homosexuality can find some immunity within Islam. Indeed, Islam has a tradition of moral universalism which predates most Western discourse on human rights.For now, if the issue at hand truly is consensus on a universal set of liberties and immunities for the spiritual and material well-being of Mr. Diadji Douifi and his colleagues, then...
...Caroline Kennedy is going to be the next senator from New York, so get on board now.” So spoke a top aide within the New York mayor’s office, according to phone records obtained by the New York Times. But the union leader on the other end of the line shouldn’t have been surprised to hear it. A number of influential sources, from politicians to journalists, have already pegged Caroline Kennedy as the front runner for Hilary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacant senate seat...
...figure represents the smallest percentage increase since 1966. This increase, recommended by Princeton’s Priorities Committee, will pay for tuition, room, and board, Aronson said. The recommendation must be approved by Princeton’s Board of Trustees, who are responsible for fee packages. The biggest losers within Princeton will be tenured faculty and higher-level administrators, for whom salary increases will be capped at $2,000. Princeton’s scholarship budget is expected to rise 13 percent from $92 million to $104 million, Aronson said. This figure includes increases in scholarship amounts already awarded this year...