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...Although the 2007 announcement to halve the number of transfers ignited petitions of angry students, Harvard administrators have, both historically and in recent memory, reaffirmed the importance of the transfer program and the important role transfer students play in the Harvard community. As early as 1957, when housing concerns threatened the number of transfer students admitted, then-Director of Financial Aid John U. Monro ’34 urged that “Harvard ought to liberalize the transfer operation greatly.” Transfer students, then and now, are a significant demographic of highly motivated students and leaders that...
...That may produce concern abroad in the short term, as foreigners worry any U.S. state can now ignore existing traditional treaties that haven't been "implemented" by Congress. But by regularizing American treaty approval in the future, the Court may clarify and even strengthen the force of international law at home. In that sense, the Bush Administration may have lost twice in the Medellin case ruling...
This youth culture echoes and magnifies aspects of the adult world around it. Binge-drinking, for example, is hardly the preserve of young Britons. A report by the organization Alcohol Concern noted that one in three British men and one in five women drink double the amount considered safe at least once a week. And, unlike many British sports, this pursuit is popular from the bottom of the social spectrum right to the top. Photographs of Princes William and Harry emerging flushed from nightclubs are tabloid staples...
History Lessons At the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference on March 18, members debated why so many pupils seemed "unhappy and anxious." A week later, the larger National Union of Teachers (NUT) expressed concern over a rise in students taking weapons and drugs to school. But schools can be part of the problem. Ofsted, the official body that inspects educational institutions, says that 10% of state high schools are "inadequate." A 2007 report by the OECD found that class sizes in British high schools are among the largest of 30 Western countries. NUT members have resolved to launch...
...Foreign Dialogue, explains. "But as the operation has become more military in nature, support has dropped." Even in France, which has superb armed forces held in high regard by the public, and which is on the verge of cementing its "reintegration" into NATO's command structure, there is still concern about answering NATO's call for more troops in Afghanistan. "It's a question of political acceptability," explains François Heisbourg, a special adviser at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Paris. Any spike in French casualties, he says, could produce "a real change in public perception...