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...standardized tests is correlated to socioeconomic status, and studies have shown that it’s not by any personal failure that people who are poorer score lower. A March 2003 Century Foundation study backed others’ findings that low-income students placed in wealthy high schools tend to outscore their low-income peers at poorer schools...
...downing of a third U.S. helicopter in two weeks. The show of force is designed to deter the locals who have either supported the insurgents or, at least, failed to cooperate with the U.S. forces to weed them out. One obvious danger is that large-scale counterinsurgency operations tend to alienate the local population, and generate support for the insurgency. A second danger is that an escalation of military operations sends a message more widely in Iraq that the outcome of the war itself is not yet settled, which undermines coalition efforts to win the confidence of Iraqis...
...goods flood in across the Turkish and Kuwaiti borders. The military presence of the U.S. in the north and the British in the south is far less visible than are the U.S. forces in and around Baghdad. Despite sporadic ambushes, the foreign troops are largely tolerated by locals, who tend to view them as a necessary evil until a viable Iraqi administration is in place...
According to Winters, there was not much overlap in the support for the three candidates, and he says voters tend to support their local activists but do not uniformly vote for a “neighborhood slate...
Unlike last year’s bright yellow beacons of moral authority, the new soft-colored posters deliver the seemingly innocuous message that “Women Deserve Better.” Being a woman, I tend to agree with that statement. Women deserve better jobs and salaries, better educational opportunities and we deserve better than the constant threat of sexual violence. Yet this doesn’t seem to be what HRL is arguing for. They must believe that women deserve better than the option of safe, legal abortions, better than reproductive freedom. In other words, women deserve better...