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...lived in America for seven years, has had to acclimate herself to the American classroom after experiencing a very different pedagogical environment in China. She had not been prepared to see students eat in the classroom, and she was unfamiliar with the concept of extracurricular commitments...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduate Student Teaching Fellows Lost in Translation | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...system does, however, provide solutions to a variety of problems with our current electoral system. It could prevent low turnout primaries from determining the general election slate of candidates while also not allowing every candidate who files for election a place on the ballot for November elections. If America had instant-runoff, a majority of abolitionists might have elected an abolitionist president in 1844, and a majority of liberals might have elected a liberal president in 2000. The winning candidate of every election could proclaim the support of a majority of the electorate, and elections would be about policy preferences...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Making the Right Choices | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...Tories, that includes MyConseratives, a website that is intended, like Obama for America (now Organizing for America), to empower supporters by giving them the contacts and tools to campaign on their own. The two major parties were so impressed by Obama's campaign that they have even secured the consultancy services of former members of his team. Anita Dunn, who served as senior adviser and chief communications officer to the campaign, and her colleague Bill Knapp, a former media strategist for Obama, have been retained by the Tories. Labour has brought in Joel Benenson, lead pollster and senior strategist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Election: Raiding the Obama Playbook | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...business card of the Broward Pain Clinic announces, "Dispensing on Site!" - a service that's also trumpeted by dozens of other clinics. Because of that, cocaine is no longer king in South Florida, as it was during the Miami Vice era. Prescription oxycodone now reigns supreme. (See pictures of America's cannabis culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invasion of the Pill Mills in South Florida | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...chief concern of the U.S. is to prevent the new leadership from kicking out the U.S. air base in the northern city of Manas, which is a vital transport link for America's war in nearby Afghanistan. About 50,000 coalition troops passed through it in March alone. On Saturday, Otunbayeva assured U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the new Kyrgyz government would abide by previous agreements to let Manas operate. But the Russian government has lobbied hard to force Kyrgyzstan to evict it, with a senior Russian official telling reporters on April 8 that "in Kyrgyzstan, there should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kyrgyzstan, Bakiyev Now Willing to Step Down | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

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