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09-11-2011 , 08:29 PM

#926

[Phill]

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Just seen pics of the 500 million ground zero memorial. Really impressive looking.

09-11-2011 , 08:36 PM

#927

Low Key

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10 years later, I can't remember - did we ever build anything at ground zero?

09-11-2011 , 08:42 PM

#928

2/325Falcon

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Wat.

09-11-2011 , 08:45 PM

#929

Chips Ahoy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by The Economist

A new law to reform universities was overwhelmingly approved
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The state spends more per student than almost any other European Union member, but the quality of university and college education (with a handful of exceptions) is dismally low.
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university students take an average of 7.6 years to complete a first degree. Tuition is free but teachers make few demands, so many students turn to political activism. An “asylum” law forbade the police from entering university premises. This encouraged drug-dealing and the stockpiling of petrol bombs on campus.
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the education minister, accepted a tough brief: to modernise the system without challenging the state’s monopoly of higher education (a reform too far for the socialists).
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Under the new law, students no longer have a say in electing administrators. They have a four-year deadline for earning first degrees. Outsiders are to sit on governing boards and private sponsors will be allowed to fund scientific research as well as technology and business programmes. The asylum law has been scrapped.

Most university rectors (vice-chancellors), who will have to resign next year to make way for teaching staff to elect their successors, oppose the reforms. So do many students. A wave of sit-ins has started as undergraduates return to resit exams.

Name that country + OMG at the previous system.

09-11-2011 , 09:00 PM

#930

Low Key

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Italy?

09-11-2011 , 09:15 PM

#931

[Phill]

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Italy is probably a decent guess with a good chance of being right, but im going for Greece.

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Edit, after looking it up:

Spoiler:

09-11-2011 , 09:44 PM

#932

Chips Ahoy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by [Phill]

Italy is probably a decent guess with a good chance of being right, but im going for Greece.

Spoiler:

09-11-2011 , 09:58 PM

#933

Low Key

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I thought Greece would be too obvious.. = /

09-11-2011 , 10:58 PM

#934

13ball

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Greece is the statists' Somalia.

Actually, to be honest, we have a lot of Somalias, fml.

09-11-2011 , 11:03 PM

#935

Low Key

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I think you mean neoliberal Somalia

09-11-2011 , 11:11 PM

#936

BigPoppa

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Greece is the Social Democrats' Somalia.
Somalia is the Anarchists' Somalia.

09-11-2011 , 11:16 PM

#937

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Quote:

Originally Posted by The 13th 4postle

I think it's in poor taste to claim that leaders Bush and Guiliani cashed in on 9/11 on the tenth anniversary no less.

Wow, so you're that guy.

09-12-2011 , 01:34 AM

#938

Brons

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The petrol bomb part gave it away. 100% Greece after reading that.

09-12-2011 , 09:10 AM

#939

BigPoppa

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Whatever happened to

Quote:

teachers make few demands, so many students drink heavily, listen to terrible music and have sex with pretty much anyone

09-12-2011 , 09:17 AM

#940

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 13ball

Greece is the statists' Somalia.

Actually, to be honest, we have a lot of Somalias, fml.

North Korea is the statist Somalia LDO.

09-12-2011 , 09:37 AM

#941

Borodog

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Somalia is the statists' Somalia.

09-12-2011 , 09:37 AM

#942

The 13th 4postle

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pvn

North Korea is the statist Somalia LDO.

So you admit Somalia is the ACist's North Korea?

09-12-2011 , 10:01 AM

#943

Low Key

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Quote:

Originally Posted by The 13th 4postle

So you admit

stopped reading here, lol'd

09-12-2011 , 11:08 AM

#944

the steam

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Is that moon faced deputy behind Obama a man or woman?

09-12-2011 , 11:26 AM

#945

Losing all

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Quote:

Originally Posted by the steam

Is that moon faced deputy behind Obama a man or woman?

Dunno, but obviously a socialist.

09-12-2011 , 02:16 PM

#946

jsnipes28

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not sure where the best place to post this was and doesn't deserve it's own thread but thought this was a pretty awesome article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/the-ma...wpisrc=nl_wonk

09-12-2011 , 02:21 PM

#947

ASPoker8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jsnipes28

not sure where the best place to post this was and doesn't deserve it's own thread but thought this was a pretty awesome article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/the-ma...wpisrc=nl_wonk

Wow, a political pundit shilling for Keynesian economics and making sweeping, general attacks on Republicans.

What a pretty awesome article.

09-12-2011 , 02:31 PM

#948

iron81

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The Chicago Tribune prints two openly political comic strips, but for the first time ever, they yanked this one and a few more this week because it doesn't meet their standard of fairness. I have been reading them for 20 years and I have never seen that: