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...also may force Korea's spirited Christians to recalibrate their strategies. "It will definitely lead to a purge at churches" on the peninsula, says Douglas Shin, a pastor involved in missionary activities with North Koreans. "People will wonder if it is worth the risk now, and donors will probably withhold more funds because they fear they could be causing someone harm." Though Shin believes the Afghanistan mission was sincere, he expects that what he calls "camcorder missions" - assignments that are more or less photo ops for groups looking money for supporters - to wane in the near future...
...both the significant monetary savings that have resulted from moving CUE evaluations online and the vast decrease in response that has resulted, we are compelled to support faculty legislation that would make CUE evaluations mandatory for all students. Such a system, which has been successfully enacted at Yale, would withhold grades from students who have not filled out their course evaluations either until they do so or until a certain amount of time has passed. The problem is that a student’s incentives to fill out their CUE evaluations—which at present amount to a miniscule...
...Generally speaking, executive privilege is the President's right to withhold certain information from Congress, the courts and most anyone else, even in the face of a subpoena. It's a conditional privilege, meaning it can be overridden in some circumstances, such as when the President is the target of a criminal investigation. That's why President Nixon famously lost his 1974 struggle in the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the Watergate tapes private. But the courts are typically deferential to the privilege, presuming that it holds unless someone can prove an overwhelming interest in obtaining the information...
...Those crimes were horrible, and the utterly despicable behavior of all the Axis powers during World War II is something that people in Japan and everywhere must understand and appreciate. Nevertheless, I do not believe it to be the place of the current Japanese government to either grant or withhold apology for events that took place so long...
...seems a bit arbitrary for Sports Illustrated to withhold an issue that’s part of our subscription,” said John C. McMillian, the librarian for Quincy House. Quincy, along with Adams and Lowell, is among the Houses that subscribes to Sports Illustrated but didn’t get the swimsuit issue, which hit newsstands about a month...