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...this the tipping point? Is this a sign that University Hall might respect students and hope to include us in the decision-making processes that govern this College? I hope the answers are “yes,” but they depend on the leadership that Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds will bring to University Hall in June...
...Taliban, for all its draconian practices and human rights abuses, is also remembered for bringing order following the excesses of rival commanders in the country's civil war. Crime was punished - brutally and in excess, yes, but visibly and uniformly. If the Taliban and the insurgents can convincingly offer civilians a return to law and order, they will gain support. The Afghan government may realize that it's better to take a page from their book - tempered with human rights and due process - than to be defeated by an inability to crush corruption...
...This is an audience that has yet to be tapped into," says America Ferrera, the Ugly Betty star who has a small role as a U.S.-born college student who takes Mexican children across the border. "Yes, they're in line for Spider-Man 3. But they're responding to a story that speaks truly to their experience...
...Tuesday, the annual Expenditures on Children by Families report, which tracks how much it costs to raise a child in America, was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (yes, that's the government bureaucracy charged with this particular tally). According to its latest estimate, a child born in 2007 costs $204,060 to watch over, feed, cart around, educate and house from birth to the age of 18. This amounts to a tenfold increase in less than 50 years. According to the USDA, child-rearing costs have soared since the department began its annual study in 1960, when raising...
...started off talking about the Hizballah military commander Imad Mughniyah, who was assassinated in Damascus on February 12. "Yes, indeed," he said in fluent English, "Hizballah will absolutely have to respond. But not now. There is too much too lose...