Word: mid-term
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...first-year students in their first semester without giving great pause to one of the main causes of poor performance—a lack of decent advising. Those students requiring a mid-semester withdrawal are the ones who stop attending classes, fail to complete their papers and problem sets, and do not study for exams. If the College offered better advising—requiring professors to file mid-term reports on all moderately and poor performing first-year students and having more frequent advising sessions that include particular focus on individual academic and emotional issues—less first-years...
More dangerous than a padded executive branch, however, is the false sense of security the department fosters among the American public. In exchange for even higher approval ratings and a GOP sweep of the mid-term elections, Republicans have sacrificed reality to placate American nightmares. True conservatives should balk at this new layer of bureaucracy, which is merely a band-aid for the country’s fear and compromises a crucial element of the party’s founding principles...
...mildly, the Bush administration just had a great week. In addition to the President's triumph in the mid-term elections, two months of patient American diplomacy at the United Nations eventually produced a draft resolution on Iraq which won the unanimous endorsement of the Security Council. The way is now open for U.N. inspectors to return to Iraq to secure its compliance with past resolutions; if Baghdad stiffs the U.N. again, "serious consequences" are promised, and everyone knows what the Bush team understands those two words to mean...
...This attempt to provide a broad, comprehensive account of the mid-term elections is something none of the current reporters or anchors have experienced. It was something we thought would be interesting to coordinate again,” Jones said...
...impressive mandate. What will he do now that he has one? There may be too much over-reading of the 2002 election results, but there's no doubt it was a very good night for the 43rd President. He overcame 40 years of mid-term electoral tradition by increasing his party's share of the House seats and made history by re-taking the Senate. He helped rescue his brother's wobbly gubernatorial campaign and, in doing so, buried a lot of the ghosts of the Florida 2000 presidential recount. Oh, and he also left his opposition in chaos...