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...John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum event brought together experts from academic, military, and political backgrounds to discuss the report, which Petraeus presented to Congress last Monday...
...receive help from the comfort of their dorm rooms, rather than forcing them to lug their laptops to wherever an instructor or TF happens to be setting up shop.” Malan was optimistic about the prospects of the new addition and said that a change in forum for office hours made sense for the course. “There’s this tendency in academia to introduce technology into curricula simply for the sake of introducing technology. That’s a bad reason.” Malan is taking over the leadership of CS 50 this...
...town halls," though McCain has often said he prefers the give-and-take, and surprises, that come with opening up the floor to the audience. His says that's where he shines as well, but in New Hampshire, in particular, where anti-war sentiment runs high, an open forum could pull McCain off of his carefully crafted message. In Concord, he says he'll take questions if there's time. A young man approaches him and says, in the slightly quavering voice of someone not used to speaking in public, "I was in Iraq." McCain grasps his hand and thanks...
...Unfortunately, Asia lacks any real security forum to hammer out problems. In Northeast Asia, the six-party talks on North Korea have not developed into a permanent institution. In Southeast Asia, diplomats have invested sweat on a free-trade zone, but pay little attention to the ASEAN Regional Forum, Southeast Asia's security-talk shop. Washington doesn't help, either: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice simply skipped the Forum in August. Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo put the best face on her absence, saying, "Provided the U.S. stays engaged, this can be a new golden age for Asia...
...flip side of that political calculation was apparent on Sunday night. In Miami, all the Democratic candidates rushed to show their support in answering the first question, one clearly aimed at the G.O.P.: "Do you consider that participating in a forum run in Spanish and addressed specifically to Hispanic voters is a political risk...