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...campaign is designed to elevate the President's poll numbers rather than solve the ugly problems the Administration has created for the country. It is hard to imagine any American finding valid reasons to defend George W. Bush's performance. There are new revelations almost every day about questionable conduct and incompetence among the President's staff and appointees. Let's hope they never again have the guts to lecture us on patriotism, character, integrity or family values. At a time when the world needs leaders, that crowd has disgraced public service. Margaret Ray Pearisburg, Virginia...
...restrictions that school administrators have been imposing on students and their dates this spring. A growing number of schools also screen for alcohol at the door, require teens to sign drug-free pledges, ask parents to consent to their child's choice of date and in some cases even conduct background checks on outsiders invited to the event. The rules have sparked school-board showdowns across the country. Administrators say they just want to keep kids safe. Graduating 17- and 18-year-olds who view the prom as a rite of passage into adulthood complain that they are being treated...
...president’s pay provoked a protest this past July from then-Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper. “In my judgment, your 2004-2005 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatever,” Harper said in his resignation letter...
...cool day, or changes in the pitch of a person's voice. Racial or ethnic factors are not a criterion for singling out people, TSA officials say. Those who are identified as suspicious will be examined more thoroughly; for some, the agency will bring in local police to conduct face-to-face interviews and perhaps run the person's name against national criminal databases and determine whether any threat exists. If such inquiries turn up other issues countries with terrorist connections, police officers can pursue the questioning or alert Federal counterterrorism agents. And of course the full retinue of baggage...
...what-I-knew-you'd-be-optimistic-too tone. But last night Bush at least was introducing a new topic, explaining to the country something they didn't know that well. And he did it in a manner that was civilized and gracious, plainspoken but sophisticated. "America needs to conduct this debate on immigration in a reasoned and respectful tone," Bush said "We cannot build a unified country by inciting people to anger, or playing on anyone's fears or exploiting the issue of immigration for political gain...