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...then brought his business skills to government. As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney cut spending, increased the number of charter schools, vetoed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, fought for the traditional definition of marriage, and instituted universal health insurance—all without raising taxes...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc and David A. Lorch | Title: Romney: Mr. Fix-It for America | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...called Fair Tax, which would replace the progressive income tax with a more regressive national sales tax. His major education reform would not be more federal spending on teachers or preschool, but more arts education, stricter teacher testing and a new federal push for home schooling or charter schools. When he speaks of health care, he talks not of new federal benefits, but of more focus on prevention for chronic disease like diabetes and tax breaks for health savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Huckabee's Populism Play? | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...recording was provided by Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini, the Miami resident who had allegedly attempted to smuggle the $800,000 into Argentina on Aug. 4 on a flight from Caracas, Venezuela. He flew on a charter by Argentina's state oil company. Antonini, who had allegedly fled Argentina for his Key Biscayne, Florida, home, allowed himself to be wiretapped by the FBI and the information he gathered led to the arrest of Venezuelan businessmen Franklin Duran and Carlos Kauffmann. Mulvihill said that Antonini had been offered $2 million by an unnamed party to hide the provenance and the beneficiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubles for Argentina's New Evita | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

Elana C. Rome ’07 said her 10th-grade geometry class at Community Charter School of Cambridge gives her “such a high...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Find Calling in the Classroom | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...recent morning at Community Charter School, Parris challenged his physics students to add vectors. He gives them two sets of directions in hopes of showing that it doesn’t matter how they order the quantities...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Find Calling in the Classroom | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

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