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The Irish government today confirmed that it will be cutting special teacher support for children with mild learning disabilities in 119 schools nationwide. This announcement comes on the same day […]
Everyone knows that they're supposed to be adapting to a newly lean recession budget, but once you've nixed pedicures, Starbucks and the occasional taxi, you may start to feel a […]
Sirius-XM appears poised on the brink of bankruptcy this morning, which should come as a surprise to no one and will present an opportunity for some.  The economics of the […]
Marking a coup for digital journalism, those wily upstarts at the Huffington Post got a not-bad seat Obama's first White House press conference. HuffPo's question, delivered by one Sam Stein, […]
Newsweek tracked Republican chatter recently over how President Obama's stimulus bill could push the United States further down the slippery slope toward socialism. Despite a rather loose use of the […]
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We must empower the preexisting international institutions and make them more effective, says C. Raj Kumar.
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According to C. Raj Kumar, it is important is to recognize that there are many aspects of human rights with which the Chinese have made great progress.
Twitter, the darling of web entrepeneurs everywhere, may be one of the few networking outfits that are not sweating the economic doldrums. Though they still lack a revenue stream, Twitter […]
Even though she may have taken some flack from Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Alexander's presence at the Obama inauguration seems to officially signal the return of eloquence and rhetoric to the […]