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Hillary’s platform notes that we should measure school improvement based on the year-to-year performance of students rather than by how schools with disparate local funds stack-up against each other. Currently, all schools are expected to have a certain percentage of students meet a predetermined level of math and reading proficiency each year. This is a bit like asking the tortoise to beat the hare. It’s possible, but highly unlikely outside the fairy-tale world of stump-rhetoric. Rather than asking low-income schools to catch-up to institutions soaked in high...
Rising to Hayden's defense, the White House this week made clear its view that waterboarding has saved American lives, is legal - and does not constitute torture, as critics insist. A spokesman for Bush said the President would authorize waterboarding for use on future terror suspects if certain standards are met, a spokesman said. Hayden himself banned the technique in 2006 for use in CIA interrogations, and the Pentagon and FBI have done likewise...
...blamed for scratching their heads over just how much they're being asked to spend on defense next year. That's because the budget doesn't include a couple of major items, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. Defense budgets have always omitted certain items - nuclear weapons, for example, fall under the stewardship of the Department of Energy. But with the two wars currently under way costing about $12 billion monthly, the gap between the budget presented by the Pentagon and what America will actually spend on the military in 2009 is going...
...Minorities make up nearly half of the Harvard population. Yet, minority actors, directors, producers, and techies are few and far between. In Harvard productions, how often do you find minority actors cast onstage, besides in productions that are staged by cultural groups such as BlackCAST or Bodas de Sangre? Certain ethnicities, particularly Asian and Middle Eastern, are conspicuously missing from Harvard’s thespian community...
...from the couch for another beer, you were certain to miss a key play or substitution. A new poll in California, for instance, that showed Romney pulling ahead. Or another press conference in which McCain called out his chief rival as a big spender without backbone. Or the stump speech at Georgia Tech, where Romney told everyone that McCain would collapse the "house that Reagan built." Or a supporter, like former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who blurted out at a Nashville pancake place that Republican "bigwigs" were "lining up like lemmings" behind McCain. Or another endorsement. Or another television...