Word: trails
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...Chavez's staying power, however, could depend on the opposition's ability to rebound from a demoralizing loss and maintain the unity it established on the campaign trail to end years of self-defeating bickering among its various parties. Rosales' brief concession speech suggested the opposition may have resolved to accept that Chavez won't be ousted any time soon, and to instead take the long view and strengthen their movement through grassroots organizational work - a counterintuitive option for a movement that has its origins in two parties of the political and economic elite that had maintained a lock...
...Beausset, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, spent last year in Guatemala after Hurricane Stan ravaged his home country. During his time off, he started a project to aid Guatemalans farming shrimp and embarked on a journey mirroring that taken by migrant workers from Guatemala.On the campaign trail De Beausset appears soft-spoken and humble, quicker to play up Anene’s accomplishments than his own.CULTURE OF COLLABORATIONThe two running mates interacted long before they sought to tackle textbook costs through the UC. The Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrators participated in the First-Year Urban Program, lived...
...adult children regret not getting to know - really know - their parents before they pass. Few get a chance to make up for that. John Dickerson, a former TIME correspondent, has written a biography, On Her Trail, about his mother Nancy Dickerson, a pioneering female television journalist. After she died in 1997, he inherited her papers and diaries and eventually discovered a different woman than the one he thought he knew. In the process, he also uncovered a rich history of Washington society and the press during the 1960s and '70s. Dickerson spoke with TIME's Ana Marie...
Worse, by stressing racial balancing, critics say, you take the focus off improving educational outcome. Thirty years of seating black students next to white ones has failed to close Jefferson County's achievement gap. Black high school students still trail their white counterparts by 25% in reading-proficiency tests and by 34% in math. The gap is closely linked to factors like parents' education level and income, which no amount of school balancing is likely to fix. "We have the most integrated school system in the country," says Carmen Weathers, a retired Jefferson County schoolteacher. "That sounds good...
...Although the Canadian counter-intelligence service claims Hampel was an agent for the SVR, successor to the cold-war-era KGB, Canadian security experts say part of Hampel's espionage "legend" - the false identity and public trail he allegedly established through nefarious means - does not entirely match the old KGB modus operandi. KGB agents would be reluctant to use the records of an existing citizen for the foundation of a spy's fabricated life...