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...Bush administration hadn’t done enough to promote peace in the region, in a videoconference discussion hosted by the Institute of Politics (IOP) Friday. The videoconference featured Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the director of the State Department’s Office of Egypt and the Levant, whose purview includes Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. In Washington, D.C. at the time of the conference, she spoke with students and faculty using telecommunications equipment recently acquired by the IOP. Abercrombie-Winstanley, who headed the U.S. task force in Lebanon this past summer, spoke positively of U.S. involvement. She praised the State Department?...
...Finder. Funkmaster Flex, the hip-hop evangelist, is closer to the flavor. K'wan's reading audience is loyal--he has more than 400,000 books in print. But titles like Gangsta, Road Dawgz and his latest, Hood Rat, have captured an audience well outside St. Martin's usual purview. So instead of signings at Barnes & Noble, St. Martin's is planning giveaways and readings in barber shops and beauty salons. There will be ads on urban radio and an official Hood Rat mix tape...
...about what our foreign policy should be and what constitutes our national interests and values. That is an issue of national security no less vital than protecting our ports or airlines. Throughout our history there has always been a kind of unspoken presumption that foreign policy was outside the purview of the people, that it needed to be in the hands of specialists and policy mandarins and that ordinary Americans were just not equipped to make decisions about such highfalutin matters. That is a mistake we can no longer afford. American citizens pay taxes to support our policies overseas...
...National Science Foundation (NSF) late last week. The subpoenas requested material relating to a total of 47 grants. Yale, like other major universities including Harvard, relies heavily on federal funding for scientific studies and receives the bulk of its federal grants from the DOD, HHS, and NSF. The purview of the subpoenas, which Yale officials described as “administrative” rather than criminal, extends to documents as much as ten years old. Such subpoenas need not be part of a grand jury investigation and can be issued either by an executive agency with sufficient statutory power...
...Because charter schools are outside of the purview of the School Committee—charters are granted by the state—Nolan says that Cambridge should be taking other “bold steps” that have proven successful in addressing under-performance in cities across the country. Among them is increased tutoring for failing students, the hiring of more math and literacy coaches, and more teacher mentoring programs within the classroom...