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...Asian summits and offered reassurance that, unlike Koizumi, he won't let ideology get in the way of national interest. "Abe is a political realist," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "His foreign policy will be more multi-directional...
...that inspire National Science Foundation- or Institutes of Medicine-sanctioned studies to prove or disprove the underlying larger claim. The sort of research TIME takes two Cornell University professors to task for not having already conducted at their own expense would require millions of dollars for a very complex multi-year home-monitoring study with hundreds of families in the study group allowing two-way recording devices throughout their homes and hundreds more in the control group...
...success of microfinance, however, requires fighting against entrenched orthodoxy. Startup support for a microfinance institution often comes from partnerships with larger banks. These corporations are accustomed to multi-billion dollar deals and must develop confidence in the accumulation of small successes that lie at the heart of microfinance. Additional support requires donors like the Gates Foundation to be convinced that a money-making solution will be effective in alleviating poverty. And the clients must be persuaded to trust a financial services system that has long excluded them...
...Ultimately, however, because being gay is a personal matter, more so than being black or being Native American, a blanket affirmative action policy for gay students would oversimplify a complex issue highly dependent upon individual circumstance.This page has a history of supporting diversity. We firmly believe that cultivating a multi-racial, multi-faith, generally inclusive student body from a wide range of geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds benefits a university’s community. We also believe in a student body tolerant and supportive of all sexual orientations. But the practical costs of instituting a general affirmative action policy...
Second, our local worlds are more pluralistic than ever, having been made much more complex by the worldwide migration of people both as refugees and immigrants. Over the past four decades, the U.S. has become a multi-religious nation to a greater extent than ever before. There are Islamic centers, Hindu and Buddhist temples, synagogues, and a multitude of contesting churches in every major city...