Once new institutions figure out how to measure and articulate the true value proposition of student learning to the public, they will be able to compete directly with the traditional Ivory Towers.

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However, this proposition holds true only for specific items and capabilities.

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This common sense proposition is all the more true if, as the Center contends, such initiatives are themselves contrary to Western interests.

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True or not, there is no questioning the rider to the proposition: that high-handed unilateral action to determine the future of a city that both Israel and the Palestinians claim as their capital could well destroy any hope of a peace agreement.

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