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Some critics contend that the whole movement was soft in the head. It "had as its ideological antecedent the notion that academics should take a back seat to self-exploration, socialization and working in groups," writes Cheri Pierson Yecke, a former education commissioner in Minnesota, in a forthcoming report for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation titled Mayhem in the Middle: How Middle Schools Failed America and How to Make Them Work. "A disproportionate regard for student self-esteem and identity development," Yecke argues, yielded a "precipitous decline" in academic achievement...
...have to be decisive now," he said. Earlier in the week, the Prime Minister showered various sectors with pecuniary perks, including a 5% civil-service pay hike, a tax cut for businesses, $500 million in loans for rural villages, and a promise to increase the minimum wage. Critics contend that these policies will make little difference. "When you have drought, bird flu, stagnating tourism, decelerating growth in exports and a ballooning oil-import bill," says Chris Baker, co-author of Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand, "I can't see how a small income stimulus is going...
...party over Gonzales. "For Reid to say that he is acceptable because we confirmed him as Attorney General is wrongheaded," says Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future. Tom Matzzie of MoveOn.org insists, "Gonzales should not be a Supreme Court Justice." Still, some party vets contend that Democrats will ultimately back Gonzales, seeing him as a more moderate choice than others Bush could name. "When push comes to shove," says Democratic strategist Harold Ickes, "I think Democrats will find him acceptable...
...fight over the next Supreme Court vacancy--just not quite the fight they got. Expectations that Rehnquist, 80, who is battling thyroid cancer, would step down have had constituencies on both left and right poised for battle. They have not had a high-court nomination to contend with since 1994, making this the longest the court has gone without any change in its membership since the 1820s. The less anticipated resignation of O'Connor, 75, abruptly raised the stakes. A contest over Rehnquist's successor would be pitched enough, but his departure would likely preserve the status quo. Rehnquist...
...biggest winner in this election is Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Since succeeding to the head of the theocracy with the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Khamenei has always had to contend with rival conservatives like Rafsanjani or with reformist Mohammed Khatami, who has held the presidency since then. While that office has always been much less powerful than that of the venerable Supreme Leader (Khamenei, while theoretically above politics, runs Iranian foreign and nuclear policy from behind closed doors), the presidency has been a strategic bully pulpit for those with ideas different from the theocracy...