Welcome back.
As you have probably noticed, all remaining blog entries and Take Home Essay Exam #2 are all posted. I'd like everything in by the end of Friday, January 11th. I'll get the blog entries that came in over break updated here in the next day or so.
I think we have guests arranged for our last two sessions, so I'll expect everyone to be courteous and helpful toward those folks.
Today, in addition to touching base on class requirements and whatever else has happened in the world over the last two and a half weeks. I have one thing for us to take a look at. The "National Opinion Ballot Report" is a part of the "Great Decisions" program. Basically, more that 20,000 people responded to surveys based on their particiaption in Great Decisions study and/or discussion groups. You will get a summary of the data for "your" topic. We'll give you ten minutes or so to look it over, and then we'll hear from each of the groups as to what they found, etc.
If you are interested, here are the 2008 edition of the "Great Decisions" topics:
Iraq endgame
European Union
Engaging the enemy
Russia
Defense and security
Latin America
China
Philanthropy