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Scores on last spring's MCAS tests precipitously declined in Cambridge as district-wide scores felt the impact of the numerous students who boycotted the test, according to results released by the state yesterday...
...Scenario Three:Gore wins, but when the GOP-controlled Florida state legislature meets to appoint their slate of electors, they turn their backs on the count and decry the inclusion of the dimpled ballots as a gross misinterpretation of their own legislation. They ignore the dimpled chad-enhanced vote (remember, the Florida Supreme Court as much as handed them the right to do just that) and appoint their own slate of (Republican) electors. The legislature could also cave to the pressure of a deadlock and appoint two slates of electors, one Democrat and one Republican, and leave...
...Bush team, Baker warned, will consider "whatever remedies we may have to correct this unjust result." Including revving up the Florida legislature, which under a dusty law can step in and select the state's electors if they feel the law they wrote is being mangled by the working lawyers and judges. A legislature that is Republican, and that just Monday gave Katherine Harris a standing ovation...
...Europeans have been talking about coordinating a defense structure that's not dependent on NATO since the early '90s, as they moved to strengthen the European Union and give it more of the characteristics of a state. And when Bosnia blew up, and then Kosovo last year, the Europeans were faced with the undeniable fact that they didn't have the muscle to intervene, and had to turn to the U.S. on a purely European matter. It was at a summit held last summer, in the immediate wake of Kosovo, that they set their requirements as a force...
...Americans have blessed this idea because they see it as a means of addressing the issue of burden-sharing. Washington has long complained about Europe's limited defense spending and the state of its military preparedness, and they see this as a separate force, but under the aegis of NATO, that will spur Europeans to raise their spending and increase their capability in areas like transport and intelligence. Not just fighting ability, but also peacekeeping. European defense ministers have to fight battles in their own cabinets for greater defense spending, and the fact that they've signed up for concrete...