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Shotgun Weddings vs. Cohabitating Parents - Room for Debate
Maybe marriage contributes to a stable environment. Or maybe it's just that couples in stable environments tend to get married.Cohabiting is my goal.Marriage is just a small encouragement for it.Children are, by existing, legitimate. -
What Did We Learn From Irene? - Room for Debate
Most residents of New York City's flood-prone areas defied evacuation orders. Were they prepared anyway?Not at all. it has been several centuries since a solid hurricane hit onN Y harbour. The residents are totally unprepared both mentally and physically. What we learn is that the authorities must be prepared topick up the pieces after the event.Intensity forecasting was good but not publicised. -
Once a Leader, Yahoo Now Struggles to Find Its Way
Yahoo is struggling with its board.
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Will Online Faith Communities Replace Churches? - Room for Debate
Can online communities like Jesus Daily take the place of offline religious life, like what happens at synagogues and churches?No. -
Warren Bobr
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Hamas Rejects Red Cross Plea Over Gilad Shalit
“Hamas again rejects Red Cross plea to prove Israeli hostage is still alive - http://nyti.ms/lrbBzV”This man is almost certainly dead.Evidence of his continued life could be presented without exposing his location. His captivity would be more compelling if such evidences were available.
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There's Still a Need for the Patriot Act - Room for Debate
The Patriot Act does not apply only to Al Qaeda; it also has implications for domestic terrorists and ordinary criminals.http://www.truth-out.org/after-911-was-war-only-option/1315582873-
There's Still a Need
Eric Posner, co-author, "Terror in the Balance"
"So, although the threat from Al Qaeda appears to have diminished over the years, we still need the Patriot Act — or at least, certain portions of it — to protect people from other threats to their safety."
The autocrat's excuse. I smell demagogy.
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Are Research Papers a Waste of Time? - Room for Debate
Has the Internet made research papers a useless exercise for college students? Is there a better way to assess knowledge?No, research papers are useful.There is no better way if the paper is original. A way to get an original paper is to ask an original question.All research topics are questions, independent of the form in which they are presented.I will take this as a request for research.It is probably even more a request for a supported opinion. -
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Hamas Rejects Red Cross Plea Over Gilad Shalit
“Hamas again rejects Red Cross plea to prove Israeli hostage is still alive - http://nyti.ms/lrbBzV”The man is probably dead.The game is politics.The tool is kidnapping.
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College Costs: Rhetorc vs. Texas Reality - Room for Debate
If community colleges are supposed to play a big role in driving down costs, why are Texas legislators about to cut off funding for a four-year degree program?-
Rhetoric vs. Texas Reality
Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, law professor, Indiana University
"The governor’s heart may be in the right place. But with a presidential election in the coming year, and rising anger over the cost of higher education, this proposal smacks of faux populism. In order to keep higher education affordable for all people, we need serious solutions to this serious problem."
You have seen the charts. The lower tiers of the economy have not had a raise for twenty years.
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Police in Athens Clash With Protesters
“Police in Athens Clash With Protesters - http://nyti.ms/lAcRA5 Amid the chaotic street scuffles, immigrants from South Asia pushed carts full of bottled water and sold swimming goggles and liquid Maalox, which protesters smeared around their eyes to counter the sting of tear gas. ”
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European Leaders Escalate Tough Talk on Greece
1 day ago ... The German finance minister threatened to leave the country at the mercy of financial markets if it doesn't meet the conditions set for receiving ...
" Meanwhile, public protests against austerity cuts and other measures designed to open up closed professions continue in Greece. Taxi drivers staged another 24-hour strike Thursday along with some doctors and dentists. Garbage collectors, teachers and tax office workers are expected to follow in the coming weeks."
"A financially weak country, like Greece or Portugal, that pulled out of the euro zone would incur costs equal to half of its gross domestic product as the government and corporations were unable to pay their debts and banks collapsed, according to a study released this week by the Swiss bank UBS. The cost would not remotely be offset by the benefits of having a weaker currency, according to the study.
The political costs might be even more dire as Europe lost standing on the world stage, Stephane Deo, head of European economic research in London for UBS, wrote in the report. In modern times, he wrote, almost no currency unions have dissolved “without some form of authoritarian or military government, or civil war.”"
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They are being dramatic.
Breaking up the Euro is a bad idea.
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Will Online Faith Communities Replace Churches? - Room for Debate
Can online communities like Jesus Daily take the place of offline religious life, like what happens at synagogues and churches?http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/08/will-online-faith-communities-replace-churches?src=tp
I don't see how they can. I am not going to devote the necessary time and attention without some satisfaction from the group contact. I have not wanted it in real time, I see no need in virtual space. -
Rick Perry's Plan: $10,000 for a B.A. - Room for Debate
Will a college degree that costs $2,500 a year be worth the paper it's printed on?http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/05/rick-perrys-plan-10000-for-a-ba?src=tphttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=subject_id&sort_order=downloads&query=12121
"The twelfth century produced in Europe a renewal of interest and a revival of learning, brought about partly by the influence of great thinkers like St Anselm and Abelard, and partly by the discovery of lost works of Aristotle. The impulse thus given to study resulted in an increase in the numbers of students, and students were naturally attracted to schools where masters and teachers possessed, or had left behind them, great names. At Bologna there was a great teacher of the Civil Law in the first quarter of the twelfth century, and a great writer on Canon Law lived there in the middle of the same century. To Bologna, therefore, there flocked students of law, though not of law alone. In the schools of Paris there were great masters of philosophy and theology to whom students crowded from all parts of Europe. Many of the foreign students at Paris were Englishmen, and when, at the time of Becket's quarrel with Henry II., the disputes between the sovereigns of England and France led to the recall of English students from the domain of their King's enemy, there grew up at Oxford a great school or Studium, which acquired something of the fame of Paris and Bologna. A struggle between the clerks who studied at Oxford and the people of the town broke out at the time of John's defiance (p. 007) of the Papacy, when the King outlawed the clergy of England, and this struggle led to the rise of a school at Cambridge. In Italy the institutions of the Studium at Bologna were copied at Modena, at Reggio, at Vicenza, at Arezzo, at Padua, and elsewhere, and in 1244 or 1245 Pope Innocent IV. founded a Studium of a different constitution, in dependence upon the Papal Court. In Spain great schools grew up at Palencia, Salamanca, and Valladolid; in France at Montpellier, Orleans, Angers, and Toulouse, and at Lyons and Reims. The impulse given by Bologna and Paris was thus leading to the foundation of new Studia or the development of old ones, for there were schools of repute at many of the places we have mentioned before the period with which we are now dealing (c. 1170-1250). It was inevitable that there should be a rivalry among these numerous schools, a rivalry which was accentuated as small and insignificant Studia came to claim for themselves equality of status with their older and greater contemporaries. Thus, in the latter half of the thirteenth century, there arose a necessity for a definition and a restriction of the term Studium Generale. The desirability of a definition was enhanced by the practice of granting to ecclesiastics dispensations from residence in their benefices for purposes of study; to prevent abuses it was essential that such permission should be (p. 008) limited to a number of recognised Studia Generalia."
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Do We Still Need the Patriot Act? - Room for Debate
In 2001, in the weeks after Sept. 11, the law passed through Congress easily. But has it protected us?http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/07/do-we-still-need-the-patriot-act?src=tpThere has been a great deal of noise today about a credible threat.The report is that this was the result of an unsupported tale by a trusted source in Pakistan.Guerrilla warfare manuals accentuate the importance of inflicting sublethal casualties on the opposing force. These tie up resources at a much higher rate than deaths. It has been occurring to me that a trusted report of a threat is almost as effective an act of terror as an actual bomb. The cost is very low. The reputation of an agent trusted by the opposition. That cost can easily be seen as a benefit.
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You Get What You Pay For - Room for Debate
Relying on community colleges, adjunct teachers and online classes is like adding water to soup.-
You Get What You Pay For
Gaye Tuchman, sociologist, University of Connecticut
Governor Perry expects only incompetents from a B.A. program.
He is acting to get what he expects.
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Can the Middle Class Be Rebuilt? - Room for Debate
Should the government strive to create middle-paying jobs? If that is a lost battle, what is the alternative path to recovery?http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/06/can-the-middle-class-be-rebuilt?src=tpNo, those higher paying jobs are about the administration of lower paying jobs. There are none of those in this country. Let us force the creation of low paying jobs and the higher paying ones will be required.
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The Patriot Act Gives the U.S. a Bad Reputation - Room for Debate
If we want to foster peace, we should get rid of the Patriot Act.-
Giving the U.S. a Bad Reputation
Shafiqa Ahmadi, assistant professor of clinical education
"Fear of government surveillance under the Patriot Act has scared off many international students who want to study in the U.S. This loss of foreign talent has diluted the richness of campus diversity for all students, inhibited academic collaboration and deprived America of a traditional means of fostering better international relations through the presence of foreign students on its college campuses."Is this a bug or a feature?I agree that the whole apparatus must go. -
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Believers Who Are Not Churchgoers - Room for Debate
Online communities are a tool for reaching a generation whose personal priorities do not include church attendance but who spend hours each day online.I seem to be missing the prime mover in this area.I would just as soon leave it dead.-
Believers but Not Churchgoers
Cheryl J. Sanders, senior pastor, Third Street Church of God
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China Isn't Cutting Education Investments - Room for Debate
Costs at public universities have not been going up, but students are paying more for their share.-
China Isn't Cutting Education Investment
Marc Johnson, University of Nevada, Reno
Many of these state sponsors may not realize that an educated population is an active and independent population. The educated population tends to be confident that it can survive adversity and is intolerant of arbitrary commands.
A well trained population is what is wanted and that can be produced cheaply.
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Police in Athens Clash With Protesters
“Police in Athens Clash With Protesters - http://nyti.ms/lAcRA5 Amid the chaotic street scuffles, immigrants from South Asia pushed carts full of bottled water and sold swimming goggles and liquid Maalox, which protesters smeared around their eyes to counter the sting of tear gas. ”
The Greek Parliament is seeking a way to talk gold into existence.It has been tried before with equal success.This is a pause. Things will get worse in a week or two.
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There's Still a Need for the Patriot Act - Room for Debate
The Patriot Act does not apply only to Al Qaeda; it also has implications for domestic terrorists and ordinary criminals.-
There's Still a Need
The police have caught a few incompetents. The Forces of "Homeland Security" have come up empty.
We can do without the "Rent-A-Cops".
Do competent police work.
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Are Research Papers a Waste of Time? - Room for Debate
Has the Internet made research papers a useless exercise for college students? Is there a better way to assess knowledge?http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/28/are-research-papers-a-waste-of-time?src=tpResearch does not wast time. Papers are how we show that it has been done.The fact that much of the corpus of human knowledge is on line does not make it much easier to comprehend. That comprehension is what is desired and what makes or breaks a paper. Originality in the questionsthat drive the papers demand original work to respond. -
Seeing God in Others' Faces - Room for Debate
On Shabbat, we prefer to emphasize physical environments such as the sanctuary, the dinner table and even the marital bed.-
Seeing God in Others' Faces
Daniel Nevins, dean of the Rabbinical School, Jewish Theological Seminary
Christianity is just a sect of Judaism. We won't get into that.
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Investigators Assess Threat of Bombing Tied to 9/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/nyregion/biden-describes-bomb-threat-as-security-is-increased.html?hp
I love a parade. We need marching bands and flags to go with them. -
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Criminal charges are possible in the case of a missing prototype iPhone that appeared on the technology blog Gizmodo.
Apple got its iPhone back. So what's the problem? Jobs backdates millions and millions of dollars worth of stock options and goes scot-free. Some poor sob happens upon an iPhone and makes a couple of bucks in a victim-less 'crime' and we want to prosecute? Go figure.Powers hate to be thwarted. Pain is easy to inflict.I will buy a reconditioned used one when it seems appropriate.The prices are getting almost bearable.
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Morning T: Rag & Bone
An inarticulate pair.
I made very little sense of the clothing.
Rag & Bone is a Kipling quote from a verse he disowned.
He was having a bad period.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/09/greece-articles-on-financial-crisis.html
No shooting yet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14858155
"This is remarkable," said Manfred Neumann, economics professor at Bonn University. "Stark held the same view of the bond-buying as Axel Weber and the current Bundesbank president.
"This is a sign of huge problems within the central bank. The Germans clearly have a problem with the direction of the ECB," he said..
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