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...monument in the courthouse, is showing a disregard for the very laws that he has taken an oath to uphold. He should be punished and removed not because of his beliefs, but for the total disregard for the laws and courts that this country was founded on. Desmond Flanigan Atlanta...
...Judge Moore as well. He violated a court order. He foisted his religion on the rest of us. I, for one, am tired of his bully pulpit. More power to the associate justices who did the right thing. Michael Liebmann Atlanta...
...A.K.A. Abdullah Ahmad Hassan, and its training staff - led by a Belgian ex-decathlon competitor - also boasts a Russian, a Czech and a Hungarian. Why didn't Kenya block Shaheen from racing for Qatar the way it stopped 800-m champion Wilson Kipketer running for Denmark at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? There has been wide speculation that Kenyan track authorities were promised payment or a new track facility by their Qatari counterparts. Both federations have denied such allegations, but Al-Hamad does not exclude the possibility that an agreement could have been brokered at a higher level of government. Shaheen...
...designated as one of five education and literacy programs that would receive special attention and support from Laura Bush. In 2002, the President in his State of the Union address called for increased national service and then illustrated what he meant by visiting a Teach for America school in Atlanta. "I am proud to stand up and talk about the best of America and Wendy Kopp," the President said. "I hope young Americans all across the country think about joining Teach for America...
...Atlanta, several Bush aides approached Kopp and encouraged her to quadruple the size of the Teach for America infantry, from 1,000 to 4,000 per year. (Each TFA teacher serves for two years and receives $4,725 per year in college scholarship money.) Last January Teach for America received a $2 million "challenge grant" to facilitate the expansion. But about that same time Kopp began to hear that AmeriCorps' priorities had changed. Programs that encouraged voluntarism would be favored over so-called professional corps like Teach for America. She says she was assured by John Bridgeland, the Bush voluntarism...