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...hear about how education should be our country's number one concern. Our nation's economy needs a highly educated workforce, they tell us, if we are going to be able to compete in the new global economy. A college education, they warn us, is now a necessary ticket to a middle-class and decent paying job. And a strong democracy, they sometimes point out, depends on well-educated and informed citizens...
...rumored, but to save the Third World--to be Jimmy Carter, except for more money and without the carpenter's apron. A Washington lawyer will broker a book deal, and he may also talk to agents in Manhattan eager to package this most mediagenic figure into a brand: big-ticket speeches taped to become one-hour specials; missions to Africa turned into PBS series, to do for the starving masses in the sub-Sahara what Harvest of Shame did for migrant workers...
...baseball took a page from the NFL's playbook, fan appeal would double. No longer would New York be the only game in town. Since the NFL adopted a salary cap, players' salaries can only be so high (bottom line: A Rod and Manny lose, society gains). Ticket prices do not need to be jacked up every year (see: John Harrington) to support the astronomical salaries...
...Murr Center consolidated the department entirely within the Soldiers Field athletic complex. The athletic department administrative offices, which used to be at 60 JFK Street, and the ticket office, which was located in the basement of Harvard Hall, were relocated to the Murr Center, as were the varsity weight room, the hall of history and 16 regulation squash courts...
Wael Imad wanted a one-way ticket to martyrdom. It was an early morning in late October, just as the latest Palestinian riots were gathering strength, when the lively 14-year-old entered his father's tiny used-furniture store in Jabalia, a ramshackle town in the north of the Gaza Strip. "I won't be able to come see you tomorrow, Daddy, so can you give me two days' allowance right now?" he asked. Mohammed Imad, unsuspecting, forked over the money. It was less than a dollar, the cost of a shared taxi to the Israeli outpost at Erez...