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...remember British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's return from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. Chamberlain said there would be "peace for our time." And in 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. Let us remember why we have arrived at this point with Iraq. It is because Saddam and his clique have not kept their side of the bargain reached after the Gulf War. A signature on a piece of paper is meaningless. What matters is the character of the person signing it. History repeats itself. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan seems as naive...
...fists] Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, ceding the Sudetenland to Germany and announcing "peace in our time." He went down in history as the personification of misguided appeasement...
Deciding that she didn't have the stomach for such battles, Leslie Chamberlain quit the Design Review Board and started looking for new challenges. She put her bed and breakfast up for sale and enrolled in a landscape-architecture course at Ohio State. After she gets her degree, she and Rick plan to move the family to Nantucket, Mass., where preservationists tend to win their battles. "I tell people that Wilmington's getting just a little too big for me," says Leslie, her perfect smile firmly in place...
...because professionals moving to town want a college-prep curriculum that the system has been slow to provide. Wilmington's system ranks in the bottom quarter of Ohio school districts, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer study, and sends less than half its graduates to college. Rick and Leslie Chamberlain moved to town thinking the schools would be adequate; they no longer think so. Their oldest child, Jeremy, was an apathetic student who fell in with underachievers at the high school. But because Jeremy wasn't a troublemaker, says Rick, the guidance counselors never noticed him. The more Leslie tried...
...system doesn't always serve high-achieving children well, either. The Chamberlain's middle child, Nicole, 17, a high-school cheerleader and straight-A student, has received no guidance from school in choosing a college; on the day she was supposed to take her PSATs, she felt pressured to take part in a school track meet instead. While the school board has built new elementary and middle schools to keep up with rising enrollment--and a new high school is in the works--"we've seen no upgrade in the quality of education," says Rick. "When professionals moving here...