Word: basic
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...impressed by how quickly John Ashcroft jumped in and postponed the execution. He said, "Our system of justice requires basic fairness, evenhandedness and dispassionate evaluation of the evidence and the facts." Some may say the Justice Department paid a high price for its integrity: the FBI is again embarrassed, and the execution is postponed and, in my judgment, likely to be tied up for months and maybe even years. But none of that really matters. What matters is that our Justice Department proved its commitment to justice, no matter what the price...
Since Towns adopted e-learning in 1998, its middle-schoolers' scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills have risen nine percentile points. Attendance has improved, and disciplinary referrals to the principal's office are down by more than half. State assessments of their writing show Towns' eighth-graders scoring 16 points higher than the Georgia average...
Although the analogy is far from perfect, I do think the basic premise is very much similar to what happens here at Harvard. Unfortunately, the priorities of school create an ongoing “school night,” which keeps students from attending sporting events. And after four years of observing this, I felt the need to write my first and only column, in hopes of correctly, or at least alleviating, this terrible loss...
...Responding effectively to the AIDS crisis requires something of a paradigm shift in economic thinking. Last year, some 5 million people became infected with HIV, 4 million of them in Africa. The World Bank estimates that simply stopping this exponential spread of the disease through basic prevention programs throughout Africa would cost somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion a year. Before last week's launch of the U.N. war chest to fight the disease, the total investment in fighting the disease in Africa stood at no more than $400 million. And that's exactly why AIDS campaigners slammed...
...delivering security, but if you're seen to be acting tough on security threats you're perceived by many Israelis as being strong on security - whether or not your strategy actually delivers. So he's not under any public pressure to make things easier on Palestinians. That was the basic miscalculation of the Palestinians in the first place - thinking that Israelis would weaken their position if they felt threatened. Instead, the result has been directly the opposite...