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FeaturedAll is not lostWhy Jon Corzine can still win in NovemberIt has been a dismal summer for New Jersey governor Jon Corzine. Despite his campaign team's aggressive efforts to promote Corzine's accomplishments and highlight his Republican opponent Chris Christie's shortcomings and inexperience, the governor's poll numbers and approval rating have not budged since May.Princeton by the NumbersThe Importance of Data-Driven Approaches to Campus IssuesBottom line: Princeton is a sexually restrained campus with a grading policy that likely increases the frequency with which grades such as B and B- are given. Really, you ask? Isn't this is the same university that has a supposedly dominant hookup culture full of casual sex? Doesn't the grading policy target A-range grades? I come to my conclusions from taking a quantitative approach to campus issues, a practice which is too scarcely used in addressing concerns about campus life.Securing a New Generation of TeachersCreating a National Teacher CorpsWhen Barack Obama and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, announced the Race to the Top fund this summer, they made the federal government a key player in education reform. In a July 24th op-ed for The Washington Post, Duncan wrote, "The Race to the Top fund marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the federal government to create incentives for far-reaching improvement in our nation's schools.In Climate Legislation and Agriculture, We Reap What We SowFrom the swirling hurricane rising from a smokestack on the posters advertising Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to China's construction of new coal-fired power plants, the mainstream discourse of climate change has largely been confined to energy and industry.A Defense of IsraelIsrael, like any other country in the world, has its faults. But both the international media and many of Israel's opponents all too often decry these faults as evidence of Israel's immorality in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The majority of Israel's acts of aggression have, in fact, valid justifications.Controversial Reform in South KoreaIn South Korea, heated political conflict and demonstrations are nothing new, but the National Assembly's July 22 passage of three Media Bills sparked particular outrage among lawmakers and the general public alike. Freedom of the press has long been a contested right in Korea, with violent crackdowns on student demonstrations under the Chun Doo-Hwan's Presidency from 1980 to 1988. |