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<title>'Qualified' vs. 'experienced' in the presidential race</title>
<link>http://www.today.ucla.edu/voices/081008_mark-sawyer-election-blog</link>
<description>When it comes to the presidential race, "experienced" and "qualified" are not one and the same and it is dangerous to suggest that they are.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:32:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Nice swing – but can you spell it?</title>
<link>http://www.today.ucla.edu/voices/080930_voices_kyeyoung-park</link>
<description>It's high time, argues professor Kyeyoung Park, that Americans considered the bias against people who speak English as a second language, as evidenced in a recent LPGA decision to suspend players who are not proficient in English. </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:20:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Politicians campaigning for votes underestimate &lt;br> blue-collar, service workers</title>
<link>http://www.today.ucla.edu/voices/080923_politicians-underestimate_mike-rose</link>
<description>We like to think of the United States as a classless society. The belief in economic mobility is central to the American Dream, and we pride ourselves on our spirit of egalitarianism. But we also have a troubling streak of aristocratic bias in our national temperament, and one way it manifests itself is in the assumptions we make about people who work with their hands.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:02:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>How to restructure the U.S. financial sector after the Wall Street crisis</title>
<link>http://www.today.ucla.edu/voices/080916_wall-street_straszheim</link>
<description>The U.S. financial system is never going to be the same, writes Donald Straszheim, visiting scholar at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:17:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA’s admissions policy corrects a grave imbalance</title>
<link>http://www.today.ucla.edu/voices/080916_darnell-hunt_holistic-review</link>
<description>Both the University of California's mission and UCLA's holistic admissions philosophy rightly invoke important factors that "the numbers" alone cannot capture &mdash; factors that we know are crucial to the success of the state's future leaders. </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:50:00 PDT</pubDate>
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