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Students in grades 4, 8 and 10 take a battery of multiple-choice and written tests each spring in English, Mathematics, Science and Technology, and Social Studies. The tests are part of the Education Reform Act of 1993, which doubled state aid to education and established MCAS as a way of holding local school districts accountable for their students' performance...
...Daryl Bristow representing Bush (while doing double duty between this case and the roughly equivalent Martin County case down the hall), say it's a "hypertechnicality." The applications, because of a printing error, did not include a space for voter ID. The addition of the needed information in no way touched on the integrity of the ballots themselves. Goard's action merely facilitated voting, say the Bush lawyers, and not one Democratic application (which did not have the printing error) was tossed for missing the voter ID number. Is the disenfranchisement of thousands really the right remedy for that...
...after a low-level lawyer sat down at the witness stand and read excerpts of Goard's deposition, any such card was still way up Richman's sleeve. Goard testified that Democrat applications did not have the missing space for the voter-ID number, and that no Democratic staffers had asked for the same assistance with the forms that she gave Republicans...
...toward a cease-fire. Indeed, parallel with his election track, Barak is still pursuing the option of sharing power with Likud leader Ariel Sharon in a national unity government - a handy tactic for both men to postpone the challenge of the election's undisputed front-runner, Benjamin Netanyahu. Either way, that's unlikely to usher in a bull market on the tiny Palestinian bourse...
...Khobar Towers bombing, that resulted in a quick trial and execution of local suspects without U.S. investigators ever having access to them, leaving the question of that attack's ultimate authorship unresolved. And observers suspect the USS Cole investigation may be destined to go the same way...