Word: cannot
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Formerly a body beleagured by dissension about how political a role it should take, the council has finally realized that it cannot idly sit by and hope that others will somehow represent student opinion on controversial issues...
...President. The book cartons have been arranged just the way Oswald placed them 25 years ago to avoid being seen by co-workers. True, a clear screen keeps tourists from entering the assassin's lair, but the view of Dealey Plaza from accessible windows is about the same. One cannot, however, bring a rifle to check out the sights. A metal detector has been set up to spot gun toters...
Once again, Rushdie cannot go home. His north London house, guarded around the clock by uniformed police, is empty. His fourth-floor study, where he wrote The Satanic Verses at the rate of roughly 800 words a day, no longer betrays the traces of his working routine, mounting piles of typescript scattered about the floor. But on a mantelpiece in this room rests an intriguing souvenir of Rushdie's past: a beautifully bound octagonal miniature, roughly the size of a silver dollar, of the Koran...
Thomas' rules are as unforgiving as the deadly streets of East Oakland. Drugs, violence and profanity are outlawed. Mothers cannot leave the Mandela House grounds during their first 30 days; trips to doctors' appointments or court dates must be made with Thomas or one of her small staff. Residents are randomly tested for drugs. Eventually, women can earn short leaves, phone calls and family visits. School and jobs follow when the resident and Thomas agree it's time...
These gains in rote learning are offset by a worrisome inability to reason effectively. More than 60% of all high school students cannot understand the material they read, including newspaper stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...