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...crosswalk, heeding the speed limit and stopping at red lights. A pedestrian dies every 110 minutes in the United States, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and there has been an increase in the last few years in pedestrian deaths in Washington and other urban areas across the country, prompting governments in the D.C. metro area to launch a new advertising campaign aimed at increasing pedestrian safety. It is both "edgy and blunt," Branyan says of the radio spots and posters, which depict a violent pedestrian-car collision. The most recent pedestrian fatality in Washington was typical, Branyan...
...They're the same kind of talk that led the democracies to neglect their defenses in the 1930s and invited the tragedy of World War II." In order to emphasize the offensive threat posed by the Soviet Union, Reagan declassified spy-plane photographs showing Soviet activity in the Caribbean area. His charts showed the five new classes of Soviet ICBMS that have been produced since the U.S. Minuteman was deployed. He compared Moscow's missiles aimed at Europe with the lack of any NATO missiles aimed at the Soviets. And he pointed to a daunting Soviet lead in conventional weapons...
...once he begins his work with administrators, whose views are likely quite different than this. As the sole voice of student perspective, he bears a particularly heavy obligation to lobby extensively on behalf of the student population. Most notably, we hope that Sundquist will wield his influence in the area of the Ad Board’s readiness to resolve far too many student issues with a mandatory year of leave. This policy is ridiculous. It constitutes a one-size-fits-all solution to a wide range of problems, from academic transgressions to sexual and behavioral misconduct. A diversity...
...that she plans to visit. Though she didn’t get to choose the spring break location this year, Faust said she had already made a pick for 2009: Cape Town, South Africa. “I’m very excited about this because my area of scholarly expertise is the American South, and so much of that originates in African American and African history,” she said. Next week will mark Faust’s first visit to China, but for another member of her entourage, the journey will be something of a homecoming. Constitutional...
...larger. At the time, I didn't think it was a good idea, but I understood the domestic British political situation," McCain told the Daily Telegraph in February about British plans for a drawdown in Basra.) Where he wanted to move on to was the much more comfortable area of shared aspirations. "We expressed our great appreciation for the long-standing and unique relationship that exists between our two countries, our common values and our common efforts that are made by both countries on national security and others," McCain told reporters. Prominent among such joint concerns is climate change...