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...Ravitch, senior research scholar at New York University, who was an Assistant Secretary of Education under George Bush, is worried that these temporary setbacks will sour people on the idea of contracting private companies to run public schools. In fact, says Ravitch, schools need "an arsenal of approaches" to blast away at the public education crisis, including magnet and charter schools. "You can't tell kids in poor schools to hang on and five years from now the school will turn around," says Ravitch. "Their time...
More and more Republicans have come to the conclusion that Colin Powell intends to run for President. That's why a group of archconservative politicos staged a news conference to attack the former general's military record as too cautious and to blast his stances on such issues as abortion and affirmative action as too liberally spiced for the G.O.P.'s appetite...
Hundreds more machine-gun-toting French soldiers took up positions on Parisian streets after already heightened security in the capital failed to prevent another terrorist attack, in this case another homemade bomb that exploded on a commuter train beneath Paris, wounding 29 people. The blast was the eighth recent bombing or attempted bombing that authorities have blamed on the secretive Armed Islamic Group, which claims that France supports the military-backed Algerian regime the group is trying to overthrow...
Thumbing its nose at near-unanimous international condemnation, France set off a third nuclear blast beneath the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia about 6 p.m. ET. "This test was necessary to guarantee in the future the security and reliability of our arms," the French Defense Ministry said in a statement. French President Jacques Chirac has promised to sign a global test ban treaty, but only after all eight planned tests have occurred...
...exactly? It would be good to hear the President blast Los Angeles police chief Willie Williams for failing to clean up the L.A.P.D.--the job he was expressly hired to do after Rodney King. It's Clinton, not the Attorney General, who should promise a thorough investigation of Mark Fuhrman and his boasts of police mistreatment of blacks. It is the President who should swipe at the "code of silence" too many cops embrace when their colleagues are guilty of excess. Above all, it is Clinton who needs to say what we all know--that minority Americans are too often...