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Half-day township tours cost $51. World Cup fans may also want to check out the Diski tour, in which you get to play soccer against a township team, followed by a braai (barbecue). See gocamissa.co.za for more...
...starters, it's unclear how quickly states would be able to codify collective standards for college- and career-readiness - which would most likely require new exams and curricula - and already Alaska and Texas have signaled that they don't intend to cooperate in the effort. Education-reform experts have also expressed reservations ranging from the feasibility of the plan's college-and-career-ready timeline to its ability to motivate schools that fall in the middle of the pack in terms of performance. But by both limiting the scope of federal involvement and sketching out sweeping reforms, Obama is attempting...
...part, Republicans have previously used the simple-majority reconciliation process many times to pass legislation, even as they vilify Senate Democrats for trying to use the same procedure to make changes to the health bill they passed late last year with a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. House Republicans also used the procedure of "deeming" Senate legislation passed without a direct vote 35 times during the last Republican-controlled Congress. And none of these instances of parliamentary maneuvering ended up as campaign fodder. (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
...Republicans are also hammering Democrats for making deals in exchange for the votes of individual members. This criticism too is hard to sell on Election Day. Democrats kicked up a similar ruckus during the 2005 passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, when majority leader Tom DeLay threatened to derail the congressional candidacy of one member's son and threatened to withhold funds for then Representative Jim DeMint's Senate race if he didn't vote for the bill. On final passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) later that year, to gain Representative Robin Hayes' vote...
...trip to Kathmandu can leave the traveler enchanted, but the Nepalese capital's highs and lows can also overwhelm. A city of over a million people - crammed with refugees from the decade-long civil war fought in Nepal's rural areas - Kathmandu is a place of constant noise and traffic, and the occasional boisterous protest. There's no longer a monarch, but the city has royal remnants aplenty, along with exquisite Thangka and Hindu art, Buddhist artifacts, great food and a paradise of adventure sport right on its doorstep. In town for the weekend? Here's how to spend...