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Letter Unpaid Internships
To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ...
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Letter Competition and Jobs
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Letter Protecting Your Privacy
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Letters Developing Drugs for Rare Diseases
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Letter Delay of a Lifesaving Rule
To the Editor: The ability of the Office of Management and Budget to delay important federal agency regulations goes beyond energy efficiency standards for household appliances ...
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Letter Coal Exports and Prosperity
To the Editor: As ...
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Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda
forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...
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Just what are we getting into in Syria
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged buildings during battles between the rebels and the Syrian government forces, in Aleppo, Syria, June 13, ...
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Some context What bugs us so much about surveillance
This same question might fairly be asked about the controversy dominating the news since the leak that revealed the intelligence community’s highly classified electronic surveillance program. Why are we so fascinated with this case? Why are some Americans outraged at the government while others are outraged at the leaker? Why do so many of us have such firm and passionate views about all ...
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Regarding Iran Optimism and realism
Hasan Rowhani as president of Iran creates a chance for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over that country's potential nuclear-weapons program. But a diplomatic solution is far from a sure ...
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Editorial NYC graduation rate gets an incomplete
Photo credit: (Getty Images) No one thinks the New York City public school system's 64.7 percent high school graduation rate is a cause for celebration. But when Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that achievement this week for the Class of 2012, school reformers in every part of every borough felt a powerful sense of relief. That's because members of the Class of 2012 were the ...
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How poor students get soaked for college sports
As parents and students struggle to keep up with rising college tuition and take on greater burdens of debt, universities are being challenged to justify the ballooning athletic fees they tack on to the ...
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Protect students from anti-gay bullying
There was a time not that long ago when it would have seemed far-fetched to suggest that the law should protect gay and lesbian students in public schools from bullying or discrimination. It wasn’t just that homosexuality was still regarded as undesirable, even pathological. There was also a reluctance to recognize that children and adolescents might identify themselves - and be identified ...
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Death Of A Puppy An Exclusive Imaginary Excerpt From The Man Of Steel Sequel
CLOSE ON the TINIEST AND MOST ADORABLE PUPPY, who tilts his head inquisitively, at a distant noise. TINIEST AND MOST ADORABLE PUPPY (grimly): .Wurf? crash through the rear wall, which causes the ceiling to crumble. Screams. Blood. Silence. Standing unhurt atop the rubble, WONDER ...
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Will Commerce Open The Doors To Eastern Philosophy
Non-Western philosophy is typically represented in philosophy curricula in a merely token way. Western philosophy is always the unmarked category, the standard in relation to which non-Western philosophy provides a useful ...
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What others say Countering rape violence against women
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 file photo, Indian women carry signs as they march to mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi, India. For decades, women have had little choice but to walk away when groped in a crowded bus or train, or to simply cringe as someone tosses an obscene comment their way. Even if they haven't experienced explicit sexual abuse themselves, they ...
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Timothy R. Clark Graduation advice for my daughter
Graduation advice for my daughter: Bless people. Don’t worry about impressing them. And when God blesses you, enjoy the blessing and be ...
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Topic of the day Iranian election results
The elections of the Islamic Republic of Iran have lead to a surprising — to some at least — result: The election of ';moderate'; Hassan Rowhani over various hardline candidates. The election, unnoticed by many until the results were announced, has resulted in a flurry of opinions on how Rowhani's election will shape and change policies with Iran. Some, such as ...
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Learning a Lesson from Libya Iraq Reconciliation Not Revenge
Even as Syria’s nightmare continues, policy makers should consider the country’s future once hostilities end. Those planning for Syria’s "day after" should learn a lesson from the past and avoid an approach just adopted in Libya, and before that in Iraq, that will widen divisions rather than heal the wounds. Libya’s parliament recently voted to bar many ...
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Extractive Industries A New Accountability Agenda
Freedom of Expression Corruption and Financial Accountability Abuses in the Extractives Sector Absence of the Rule of Law Annex D: Ethiopia, Aspiring EITI ...
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Turkey Silencing the Guns – and Critics
Sevan Nisanyan, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, wrote a blog entry last September stating that critical comments about religion don’t constitute hate speech. "Making fun of an Arab leader who claimed he contacted God hundreds of years ago and received political, financial and sexual benefits is not hate speech," he said. "It is an almost kindergarten-level test of what is ...
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Letter Invitation to a Dialogue A Doctor Shortage
To the Editor: With the expansion of coverage under the Affordable Care Act set to take effect next year, the United States is facing an alarming physician shortage. We ...
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Countries exchange surveillance — were all being spied on Marcin de Kaminsky
Marcin de Kaminsky also belongs to a community of Net activists and 'hacktivists'. De Kaminsky is co-founder of Telecomix, a network which showed Egyptian human rights activists how to circumvent government surveillance and communicate safely during the Arab Spring. Speaking with Robin David, de Kaminsky discussed how democracies justify online surveillance, how citizens become ...
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Muzzling the media Freedom is at risk
Markandey Katju , was appointed chairman of the Press Council. He hit the ground running, called journalists ignorant and the media unreliable and worse. The current attack on the media started around then. Katju persistently sought to drum up a debate on media ethics, while making a pitch for more powers for ...
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Protect privacy Snowden affair highlights the dangers of the surveillance state
National Security Agency (NSA) exposed as exploiting domestic tech giants to monitor phone and internet activity of hundreds of millions across the world. Now the leaks have done the same to the just concluded G8 summit. It's been reported that delegates of all the attending countries were subjected to systematic spying at their 2009 G20 meetings in London, where NSA tied up with British ...
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