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Cuomo spoke about how America has abandoned its poorest citizens. He evoked for his audience the much-vaunted 40 million working Americans who don't have health insurance, along with the millions of schoolchildren subsisting on a sub-par education, in an era when we are faced with not only a booming economy but an actual budget surplus, an era when prosperity should have rendered these problems moot. Nothing in his speech was new; none of his statistics were shocking. Democrats in the audience surely agreed with most of Cuomo's ideas; Republicans, predictably, would have loved to debate...
...flock to the novelty of a secure Arab metropolis in Amman. King Hussein is especially beloved here for his emotional speech at the death of his friend and colleague Yitzhak Rabin and, in an occasion less well known outside Israel, his visit to comfort the families of seven Israeli schoolchildren killed by a Jordanian soldier. King Hussein joined the families on the floor, as is the traditional Jewish mourning custom. And today, it is Israel's turn to comfort their brethren in Jordan...
...contrast, the voting was festive. Villagers chatted and schoolchildren played. Above them, paper bunting hanging on a string bore a hortatory slogan: EXERCISE YOUR SACRED RIGHT TO CAST YOUR BALLOT! Loudspeakers blared circa-1970s revolutionary songs as people marked the ballots on their lap. Not all residents were enthused. "These officials are all the same," a wiry farmer sniffed. "I'm not even voting." He complained angrily about the depressed price of pork and lambasted the "Zhu Ba" (Pork Despot), a local entrepreneur who has monopolized the buying and selling of pigs...
...your article on the campaign by schoolchildren in Colorado to purchase the freedom of individual slaves in Sudan [PHILANTHROPY, Dec. 21], you mentioned that I put the kids and their message on our Nickelodeon channel. But it was my granddaughter Keryn who first informed me of the class's campaign against slavery. Initially, I didn't realize the significance of Keryn's concerns, but her persistence and tenacious focus on this international atrocity convinced me that I should spotlight the children's extraordinary effort. The credit for the resulting Nickelodeon News segment, which jump-started the effort, belongs rightfully...
WTNH-TV, citing unidentified police sources, said Lasaga met the boy through School Volunteers for New Haven, Inc., a tutoring program for inner city schoolchildren. Lasaga has volunteered at the program since...