March 5, 2014
Photo Credit: Published in the Council on Foreign Relations (Photo: David Mdzinarishvili/Courtesy Reuters).
Ukraine Crisis: `Biggest crisis in Europe in the twenty-first century.”
-British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Stewart M. Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, argues in the Council on Foreign Relations that what's at stake in Ukraine is the future of the world order.
``The Russian intervention will reverberate beyond the continent, since it challenges the very principles of a stable world order. How this crisis plays out may determine whether the twenty-first century remains a time of great power comity, where patterns of cooperation dominate, or deteriorates into a bare-knuckled era of geopolitical competition.'' http://goo.gl/OYxLDP
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Public colleges crowded out, beaten up.
Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report: “An Era of Neglect.’’
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Over the past three decades, support for public higher education has eroded sharply. Appropriations vanished, while tuition swelled. College students and their families, a mere decade ago, paid for about one-third of the cost of their education; but are now on track to pay for nearly all of it. In almost half of the states surveyed, they already do. http://goo.gl/mV6OMP
Interactive graph: Share of revenue (1987 v 2012) from state support at 70 different institutions. http://goo.gl/dwqSTg .
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- Twitter Inc. The reach and impact of Oscars 2014 Tweets: “There were 3.3 billion impressions of #Oscars Tweets.'' http://goo.gl/IJ3wlo
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- Migration Policy Institute (MPI): Based on data collected from the UN Population Division, map shows the immigrant and emigrant populations by country of origin and destination. Mid-2013 estimates. http://goo.gl/c3OK8X
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