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...there is hope. Fifty years after critics charged one Republican President with risking a civil war by sending federal troops into a Southern city to enforce integration, a Republican President is taking on the problem of underperforming big-city schools and what he calls the "bigotry of low expectations." President George W. Bush is seeking renewal of the No Child Left Behind law, which holds schools accountable for teaching every student and narrowing the achievement gap regardless of a child's color, income or family background. Despite its shortcomings, like training students how to pass standardized tests instead of instructing...
...level of fuel surcharges started months before Walsh took control. As soon as the OFT informed BA in mid-2006 that it was investigating the company, the airline cooperated with the investigations. (Virgin, whose legal team first contacted the OFT about the scheming once it got wind of the problem, should escape any fine as a result.) Still, it's hardly reassuring that staff at BA thought it a smart idea to collude with the company's fiercest rival. Is there a problem with values at the carrier? "That wasn't anything that was in the dna" of the company...
...human-rights activists and preservationists say the problems of the hutongs could have been solved if the political will had been there. Instead, they argue, priorities were driven by real estate developers' huge profits and by the widespread corruption that has made stories of collusion between developers and venal officials commonplace even in China's strictly controlled media. Details may never come to light, but the scope of the corruption problem was underscored last year when Beijing's deputy mayor Liu Zhihua was arrested for what the official media described as "corruption and degeneracy." As a consequence of the rebuilding...
...believe any lactating mom who takes this exam does not have physically enough time to take care of her biological needs," Currier said in a telephone interview yesterday. "The problem is that many people don’t understand that when you’re a nursing mom, you have to empty your breast every two to three hours...
...think it could be inconvenient for people who already bought a plane ticket,” said Miriam L. Glaser, a second-year student, who lives in New York. “It’s not inconvenient for me, but I can definitely see it being a problem for other people...