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...weight behind a web-based alternative to the rankings that is being spearheaded by the 900-member National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. NAICU's easy-to-read template, which is expected to be rolled out by hundreds of schools in September, allows students and their families to pull up extensive information organized in an objective format that includes such data as what percentage of students graduate in four years compared to those who graduate in five or six years. It plans to provide a level of detail that is not included in the U.S News rankings, but that...
...energy legislation is not finished by the middle of this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened to pull it in favor of the immigration bill, though he has promised to finish the measure before July 4 recess. The bill probably has enough in it pleasing to other constituencies - farming states love the biofuel provision, wind states like the renewable incentives and most Democrats want to see the tax breaks for oil and gas companies go away - to pass Congress. But Democrats will have their work cut out for them to appease environmental groups if the bill is passed...
...protests and strikes in the fairly near future. However, that's where his parliamentary majority will help see him through: whereas past protests have often forced governments to shelve announced reforms as waffling public opinion began sympathizing with strikers, Duhamel says the new electoral mandate will allow officials to pull together and ride out the storm. "There will be times of tension, and there may even be conflict and controversy, but Sarkozy has between a year and two years to really get things done without the risk of people souring on him," Duhamel notes. "France has not so much evolved...
...could by default become the party all leftist band around to mount a counter-offensive," Duhamel says. "The bad news is the Socialists have refused to regroup, reform, and put internal rivalries past them for years now, and only have two years ahead of the next [national] election to pull that off." That electoral test will be for the European Parliament. Says Duhamel, "In the meantime, Sarkozy will have the public largely behind...
...ventures in Hellenikon, Kortizidis took action alone. He faced up against a team of local entrepreneurs, shutting down a sprawling go-cart business controlling swaths of sandy shoreline along Hellenikon. He then ordered a bulldozer to rip out the operation's fenced facade, and commanded a nightclub owner to pull the plug on a pay-beach venue exploiting another part of the Athens coastline, the Agios Kosmas beach. Within days of the notice, an incident occured in which two of Kortzidis' town hall officials claimed they were battered by the nightclub owner and his wife. The officials, the businessman...