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Thanks to our current political leadership, it has somehow become fashionable to criticize America’s allies while offering conciliatory gestures to our enemies. While this trend as a whole is questionable at best, one of the most dangerous effects it has had is the suggestion offered by some that the U.S. should in some way weaken or rethink its alliance with Israel. Most disconcertingly, the Obama administration seems to be taking this idea to heart, as evidenced by its recent snub of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat...
...these successes came as part of a general downward trend on the part of the men’s team, sliding from second at the beginning of Bajwa’s tenure to fifth this year...
Despite the noticeable drop in Harvard’s national standing, Bajwa called the trend a “cycle...
...addition to the general concerns about this trend in outsourcing, we have further doubts about the specific firm used by the University of Houston professor in question. While the company, based in Virginia, asserts that all of its “assessors,” or graders, hold master’s degrees and must pass written exams before they are employed, it refused to give specific information on the graders’ educational backgrounds. The firm insists that “the proof is in the pudding” when it comes to the success of their assessors...
...definitely like to see improvement from one day to the next,” Rhoads said. “It’s kind of a typical trend, and I like that. But it also tells me that we don’t put added pressure on ourselves; we just keep on paying attention and getting a little bit better with the things that we can control...