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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Republicans have slashed funds for reading and math programs, they have slashed funds for safe and drug-free schools, for vocational education and adult-education programs. There seems to be no end to this madness...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "It costs less to raise a child than...to reform an adult...As a child on public assistance, I had the opportunity to go to a good public school in Denver...and work my way through a public university...
...school grounds makes drafting the Code of Federal Regulations look easy. Remember the joke about Chelsea's having the school nurse call her father when she needed an aspirin? The real punch line wasn't that her mother was too busy, but that at schools these days, an adult would no more give a child an unauthorized pain reliever than a vial of crack...
Assuming that the President wins another term, the Canadian numbers could figure into his thinking for the year 2000. Will he really be able to call a halt to the "permanent campaign" that has occupied him all his adult life? Or will he be tempted by a nearby electorate that is likely to give him the affection he craves? Could it be that, 30 years after less nimble members of his generation had to make the journey, Bill Clinton will flee to Canada...
According to Weil, only adult men are allowed to chew the cocoa leaves, but women are beginning to break that tradition. Adolescents, however, never use the drug...