Tag Archives: Cheating
Should We Trust The Pentagon On North Korea?
April 19, 2013
Last month, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — the Pentagon’s intelligence arm — reported “with moderate confidence” in an intelligence assessment that North Korea had mastered a startling technology: the ability to...
Two Years Later: ‘The Green Tent’ And Egypt’s Fractured Revolution
By Charles M. Sennott
CAIRO — Two years ago today, with history on the line and revolution in the air, a group of 15 idealistic young Egyptians came together under what became known as “the green tent.”
It was a Coleman “Montana” tent and its emerald color stood out against the ragtag...
Could The Superbowl Ever Be ‘Fixed’? It Happens All Over The World
By Jo Erickson
Sabotage, conspiracy theories, unfair advantages are just some of the controversial accusations aimed at this year’s Super Bowl. An unexpected power outage lasting 34 minutes brought the nation’s biggest game to a standstill and created a controversy that is still...
In Armstrong’s America, We All Cheat To Win
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
If you happened to miss it last week, sports’ latest fallen idol, Lance Armstrong – seven-time winner of the Tour de France and likely the only professional cyclist you know – admitted to America’s most-beloved former daytime talk show host what everyone knew...
The Woman Behind Shutting Down Schools: A Hero Of America’s Education System?
By Trisha Marczak
(MintPress) – Michelle Rhee has emerged as a symbol of the American education system — a smiling face with a list of accomplishments relating to the improvement of education in Harlem and Washington, D.C.
For union advocates in the teaching profession, she’s anything...
Thank Newt For Obama’s Re-Election
By John Stoehr
This is part 1 of a 2 part series.
(CONNECTICUT) — We haven’t heard much from Newt Gingrich since Mitt Romney crushed him during the Republican primary. Now that his former foe has been vanquished by the best food stamp president in the history of the United...
To The Polls Again: Venezuelans Get Ready For Another Vote
By Stephen Lendman
(CHICAGO) — In America, money power controls elections. People have no say. Each party replicates the other. Venezuela is different.
Voters take full advantage. They choose real democrats over fake ones. It shows in how Venezuelans are governed.
On Oct. 7, they re-elected...
New Frontier For Scaling Up Online Classes: Credit
By AP
In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others — “the oldest strands of our cultural...
Report: Social Security Lax On Disability Claims
By The Associated Press
Social Security is so overwhelmed by disability claims that some officials are awarding benefits without adequately reviewing applications, potentially adding to the program’s financial problems as it edges closer to the brink of insolvency, congressional investigators...
Pressure To Succeed In America Causing Academic Dishonesty
By Joey LeMay
“It’s not that they don’t know right from wrong. It’s that they see themselves as having no choice. They’ll say, ‘It’s not cheating, it’s survival.’” - Denise Clark Pope, Stanford University
(MintPress) — Students cheat in school; there’s no real...
