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These issues were formally examined for the first time in the 2007 Blue Ribbon Commission, which called on the superintendent to propose specific solutions to settle the middle school debate.

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: School Committee Elections Near | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

The AHIP report was the kind of one-sided study that lobbyists sometimes commission to create scary sound bites. It worked. The report analyzed the impact of four narrow features of the Senate Finance bill using a worst-case-scenario model; it concluded, as Ignagni says, that "health care costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health-Care Grudge Match! | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

The election commission also decided to fire or replace some 200 district election workers, out of 380, whose stations had been implicated in fraud, another positive step that is likely to restore some faith in the process, even if doing so adds to the already considerable logistical difficulties involved. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Runoff: Will It Be a No-Show Election? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Nevertheless, election workers, with the help of the U.N. and, in some cases, donkeys and camels, began spreading throughout the country with a fresh batch of ballot papers, tamper-proof boxes and indelible ink to be delivered to far-flung polling stations. This time, however, the task won't be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Runoff: Will It Be a No-Show Election? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Election observers have asked for more such stations to be closed, citing fears of continued abuses, but they also recognize the need to balance rural areas' right to vote with the risk of fraud. Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies, says such an approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Runoff: Will It Be a No-Show Election? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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