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Like many New Yorkers after Sept. 11, I asked myself what I could do to help strengthen the city in which I live--and, for me, the answer was to get involved in the effort to improve New York City's public schools. As a society, there is nothing more important than how we raise and educate our children...
...seeking the top job in the Serbian government. Would you settle for anything less? Since voters in the pro-democracy camp just gave a spectacular lead to my party, and, since the party designated me as its pick to be Prime Minister, the answer to your question can only...
...answer is yes, but seldom because foreigners are able to impose a nice power-sharing agreement between the warring parties. More commonly, foreign intervention ends a civil war by helping one side defeat the other. That was essentially what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s, when NATO finally intervened against the Serbs. The British ended the civil war in Sierra Leone by beating the rebels. Something similar just happened in Somalia...
...first American to argue that legislation is the answer. Brookline, Mass., successfully passed a resolution against spanking, although statewide efforts in Wisconsin in 1992 and in Massachusetts last year collapsed under criticism that it would be impossible to restrict a practice that, according to the magazine American Demographics, nearly half of parent-age Americans think is appropriate for disciplining children 12 and younger...
...critics, who answer that the mandate doesn't mean Chavez has carte blanche to do whatever he wants. The National Assembly is about to kneel to the president's demands that it relinquish its own power as a check on the executive. Even though it was already wholly controlled by Chavez allies, next week the assembly plans to pass an "Enabling Law" that will give Chavez broad powers to pass the laws he wants by decree. "We think a democracy needs autonomous powers, and you're giving the president all the control," opposition leader Julio Montoya, a former lawmaker, told...