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Area studies centers, as they currently exist, are a vital part of American scholarship. They provide extra funding for research into fields that are geopolitically significant, but not traditional foci of academic interest. By enabling interested scholars to pursue research in these areas and cultures, the nation comes to possess an objective, broad-based knowledge of the regions in question. Politicizing these scholars and forcing them to rubberstamp political faits accomplis would make their advice useless. Politicians already have their yes-men; academics serve a different purpose...
...problem; no sooner did Bush announce his initiative than he set about undercutting it. In his 2004 budget, he requested only $2 billion for global AIDS, $1 billion less than was authorized. While it now appears that the U.S. will spend $2.4 billion on AIDS next year, getting that extra $400 million required congressional Republicans—like Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz.—to break ranks with the administration. Indeed, since July, the White House’s Deputy Global AIDS Coordinator has written to Congress at least three times to try to hold them...
Sharp-looking and silver, this is indeed a necessity for any room. Your roommate will be able to whip up a batch of fabulous martinis and you, clearly, will deserve an extra olive in gratitude...
...Teaching has to be recognized not as an individual responsibility, but as a departmental responsibility...whereas right now, teaching is seen as an extra departmental activity,” he said...
...allow for an injury,” Campbell-McGovern said. “In order to get a sixth year, you’d have to have two seasons where there have been extenuating circumstances completely out of the control of the athlete in order to get an extra year on your clock...