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...Thompson schools would devastate the critical mass of students who remained in our traditional schools," Janna Garrison, president of the DFT, told me last week. She was referring to the $7,100 per pupil that would travel with each student who chose to go to a charter school (although the state offered the Detroit schools $15 million to compensate for the lost funds). This is a familiar union song-similar to the argument against school vouchers-that grows less powerful as urban schools grow worse. The fact that charter-school teachers in Detroit are not union members probably had something...
...choose which countries to work with? They chose us. We were asked. When they found out what I was doing, they wanted me to do it in their nations as well. Then the Irish and the Canadians, bless them, said they would fund two of the African projects, and I've talked to six or seven other governments and almost all of them are going to wind up helping...
...years and upperclass students due to their status as four-year Houses. One of today’s key Allston players was one of those “unusual” initial male immigrants to the Quad—Dean Gross. “In the early years, people chose the Quad because it was quiet,” he says. “I liked that at the end of the day, I walked home to a residential neighborhood...
When it came to war, most of Saddam's armies either chose flight over fight or were neutered by commanders who had agreed to accommodate the coalition. Colonel Ali Jaffar Hussan al-Duri was not one of them, but his ultimate superior was. Once the fighting had begun, Hussan's division of the al-Quds army, an official Iraqi militia, received what he called "an incredible" order to send half the men home on leave. He challenged the edict with his brigadier, who was equally bemused. They attempted to verify it, but communications had been cut. So they dismissed half...
Along with their own testimony, McCorvey and Cano have each submitted affidavits from hundreds of American women who chose abortion (many of them more than once) and experienced painful physical and emotional consequences. These affidavits open one’s eyes to the truth about abortion: it is not pro-woman. “I considered myself a murderer. I became disconnected, unable to really extend love or have meaningful [and] successful relationships,” one woman writes. Another says, “My life has been filled with guilt and regret over what I did to my unborn...