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...regime staged rallies demanding the latter course. In the U.S., as a crowd of Elian "supporters" grew ever larger outside the small house, the boy's case wound its way through the courts. Politicians took sides, with anti-Castro Republicans arguing for asylum, and Democrats asking for the letter of the law, which seemed to indicate that a father's will should prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew more tense, Attorney General Janet Reno sought to get Elian to a neutral site. The Miami relatives were unwilling to give him up. At 4 a.m. on April 22, Reno...
...administrations going back to Nixon. And he's got the pedigree. He dealt with low military morale in the wake of Vietnam, has held posts up and down the military and economic policy chains, and sees eye to eye with Bush on a missile defense. He even signed a letter in November criticizing Vice President Al Gore for agreeing in 1995 to Russia's sale of military equipment to Iran...
...became explicit. If my colleagues and I didn't stop our union drive for graduate-student teachers, one professor informed me, jabbing her finger at me furiously, she would ensure that none of us ever taught. Some of my fellow graduate students received more than threats; the dean's letter of recommendation for a woman applying for professorships explained that her union activity made her a risky candidate. In the increasingly shrinking job market at universities, such a letter is likely to ruin any chance for her success in academia. Instead of a place of free intellectual exchange, Yale University...
...stands, the OCS endorsement committee passes judgement on the basis of a substantially limited evaluation of candidates that explicitly excludes their most telling credentials: the eight letters of recommendation Rhodes committees request. By reviewing only a candidate's transcript, 1000-word personal statement and one-page activities list (one page shorter than in the official application), the selection committee forms its opinion on a gravely impoverished set of information. Not only does this deny a full accounting of candidates' extra-curricular and academic accomplishments, thereby discounting any attribute not captured in a letter grade or activity listing, but it also...
Latin enthusiasts believe that if young students learn word roots, they will be able to decipher unfamiliar words. (By some estimates, 65% of all English words have Latin roots.) Latin is an almost purely phonetic language. There are no silent letters, and each letter represents a single sound. That makes it useful in teaching reading. And once kids master the grammatical structure of Latin--which is simple, logical and consistent--they will more easily grasp the many grammatical exceptions in English...