(Occasional item taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes.)Terrorism: In the State of the Union address, the new president should immediately renounce the term "War on Terror" and reframe terrorism as a violation of international norms.

-- Among the many recommendations for the U.S. administration that will begin on January 20, 2009, contained in
Rebranding America, a
project by students at Los Angeles'
Occidental College, directed by their professor and our colleague,
Derek Shearer, U.S. Ambassador to Finland from 1994 to 1997. (
Aside: Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee
Barack Obama spent his
1st 2 years at Oxy before transferring to Columbia.)
IntLawGrrls welcomes blogreaders' own recommendations for the new administration!