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...third group - and some of the most diehard Hillary voters, the adviser admitted - were affluent women who had risen in their professions at the same time that Clinton did. Those voters too, she noted, tend to be quite liberal and unlikely to move to McCain-Palin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Women Vote for Palin? | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...Zealand - and transforming rugby union as well. As recently as the 1980s, players of Maori or Pacific Island descent were rare in the elite ranks of union and league in Australia, and well outnumbered in New Zealand. Broadly speaking, union, amateur until 1995, was the exclusive domain of affluent private-school alumni, while league was the professional game of the white working class. The few Maori or Islander players who broke into the latter were often racially abused by spectators and ostracized by teammates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Play | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...worries that Knighta Jane will be missing out if she stays put in her neighborhood school. "How can we expect our kids to compete on an equal playing field with kids at suburban schools?" the animal-care technician asks, pointing to public schools like those in nearby Winnetka, an affluent suburb that spends as much as 70% more per pupil than Chicago does. "It's not possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Braces for a School Boycott | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

...dividing the candidates. Nearly everyone wanted to roll back Bush's tax cuts, establish some kind of national health-care system, withdraw from Iraq and work more closely with allies around the world. Democrats even achieved this unity while expanding and diversifying the party, becoming more Hispanic, younger, more affluent, and representing more areas of the country, particularly the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How United Are the Democrats? | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

...left, that progressiveness has only encouraged worse behavior among young people. Fears are also growing that some of the brazen insubordination - and even violence - witnessed among youths in France's notorious suburban housing projects may now be cropping up as growing student assertiveness in classrooms in the nation's affluent city centers, and even sleepy burghs like Maubeuge. Polls show that a majority of French citizens back the use of limited corporal punishment to combat unruliness in schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teacher Fined, Praised for Slap | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

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