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kate a. baldwin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963 (Duke University Press, 2002) and is currently working on a second book project titled Authenticating Nations: Cultural Fictions of Soviet and American Women during the Cold War.

AbstractIn increasing numbers, academic programs across the country are exploring how they can best meet the needs of nonprofit organizations. To better support the debate and decision‐making processes of such programs, the author contributes information on training drawn from nearly six hundred nonprofit administrators, exploring variables that may influence the needs and examining the format for training most desired by those administrators.

After the financial crisis of the last years especially in developing countries & the least developed countries, & in light of the absence of reforms on a global scale, the author gives three recommendations on how to finance development -- to restrict the international flow of capital; to further national financial sectors; & to create regional mechanisms of security. 5 References. Adapted from the source document.

At present, Cyprus is the economically best prepared candidate for membership in the EU, but the division of the island weighs heavily. A confederative collaboration between Greek & Turkish Cyprus has thus far failed to develop; thus Cyprus could bring this issue unresolved to the EU. The author concludes that in this case, the EU is creating a trap for itself. E. Sanchez

After 4 years of red-green federal government, with the main politicians coming from the postwar generation, without international governing experience, & marked by antimilitary & anti-Western currents, the author observes European integration impulses; active participation in the Yugoslavia crisis management of the Western alliance; & weakness regarding defense policies, especially the principal item, reform of the Federal Armed Forces. Adapted from the source document.

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The author considers the rationale for public consultation -- identifying some of its innovative devices as well as some of its problems -- & its impact on policy making, arguing that this particular approach moves away from elitism. The paper also addresses the impact of public opinion polling in public policy & explores factors that influence the values & opinions held by the public. References. D. Miller

What is the purpose of education in a democracy? What is the meaning of freedom? These questions are explored in depth in this essay as the author attempts to expand the conversation between private and public education. Without reference to religious purposes or Gospel mandates, the article explores possible responses to ultimate questions of meaning by mining language, history, biology, and technology for answers.

In addition to external restrictions & internal modernizing processes, the influence of unions is dependent on the coherent organization of their counterpart. Regarding the background of the "Modell Germany," the corporatist interest mediation in the Federal Republic of Germany, the author comes to a surprising conclusion: the decline in employer organization is a threat to unions' influence. 12 References. Adapted from the source document.

According to the author, the dramatic warnings of a "Germanization of Europe" after German reunification, particularly in the French & British media, are unfounded. Since 1990, German foreign policy has continuously worked toward strong anchoring in Europe; in many fields, Germany is at the rear of the EU. Not German strength, but German weakness, is reason for worries today. Adapted from the source document.

The author comments on Brudney's (2001) essay concerning Karl Marx's 1844 discussion of the communist good life, a subjective experience impossible under capitalist worker-owner relations. Brudney's argument is weakened by his failure to address the central matter of private property, his apparent assumption of discrete objective & subjective categories in Marx's thought, & an overestimation of antiphilosophical analogies between Marx & Feuerbach. K. Coddon

lynne huffer is Professor of French Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Rice University. She is the author of Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing (University of Michigan Press, 1992) andMaternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference (Stanford University Press, 1998). She is currently working on a book that explores the relationship between literature, ethics, and politics.