Discovering old charms, new vices in Russia
Before my trip this past summer, I had grand ideas about the strong Russian people, the rich history that the country could offer me and all of those amazing images from Russian novels.
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Before my trip this past summer, I had grand ideas about the strong Russian people, the rich history that the country could offer me and all of those amazing images from Russian novels.
It's the newest trend for companies across the United States outsourcing information technology (IT) departments to smaller companies overseas.
Here are a few facts about employment (or the lack thereof): (1) the economy grew at the remarkable rate of 7.2 percent in the third quarter of this year, but there was still negative job growth. (2) The economy must add 130,000 jobs every month simply to maintain a constant employment rate. (3) As of late October, new claims for unemployment insurance were at slightly below 400,000 per week, the number that corresponds with zero job growth. (That is zero, bupkis, zilch, the big goose egg).
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A News-Letter survey of Hopkins undergraduates has found that 45.7 percent of students identify themselves as Democrats and a
The years since the Sept 11 attacks have produced a remarkable series of events that promise to dramatically alter the structure of the international system.
The truth about the Palestinian interpretation of the Geneva Convention became clear to me this past Wednesday night. At the MESA-sponsored presentation of "It's the Occupation, Stupid," it became clear that the Geneva Convention does not apply to the Palestinians. While the supporters of Palestine have often tried to use this document to make claims of human rights abuses against Israel, they seem to turn a blind eye to the frequent violations by Palestinians.
When the European Union's head of foreign policy, Chris Patten, called Bush's axis of evil "dangerously absolutist and simplistic," not "thought through" and "unhelpful," and that the Europeans needed to stop Washington before it went into "unilateralist overdrive," notice had to be taken [Friedman, New York Times, Feb. 13, 2002] Regardless of whether you agree with our President's decision to tab Iran, Iraq and North Korea with the title "axis of evil," this blunt European reaction is worrisome. The problem is that this is only the latest occurrence in a long line of unilateralist rhetoric and policies that the Bush administration has undertaken.
All of us who flew home this past week for Thanksgiving break saw the increased security measures that airports have instituted. We saw the National Guard walking around with large automatic weaponry. We had our "government-issued picture ID's" examined at check-in, before we entered the gate area and when we got on the plane itself. Some of us may even have been searched with a hand-held metal detector after going through the security checkpoint. We also saw random people being drawn from the seating area in front of the gates to have their luggage opened and searched. Will these precautions be enough to prevent future security breaches? Doubtful.
In this age of nuclear weapons and the Internet, the biggest threat the U.S. now faces is terrorism. This is not the threat of North Korea sending inter-continental ballistic missiles into the middle of Washington, D.C. This is a guy with a bomb blowing himself up under a building. This is a handful of well-organized and well-funded middle class men crashing airplanes into symbols of American prosperity and power.
I am a yellow-dog Democrat. In other words, even if the Democratic candidate were a yellow dog, I would vote for him just because he's left of center. While my politics are not far to the left, Republicans make my stomach turn. I am sure that you could not have found many people who were more against Bush in the 2000 elections than I. This is why it may surprise some of you that I think the Bush administration has done a good job handling the attacks on Afghanistan.
This will be a date in history we will tell our kids about, a date we will tell our grandkids about. We will all remember where we were when we found out about the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. We will tell them about the shock, horror, sadness, disbelief and the other cornucopia of emotions we felt on that day. After getting past the initial body blow that the image of a commercial jet crashing into the World Trade Center dealt to our psyche, we had to begin dealing with the multitude of emotions we felt.