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...visitors from all over the world: Muslims who want to worship at al-Aqsa Mosque; Jews seeking to pray at the Western Wall; Christians keen to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or follow the Stations of the Cross. Try as one might, it is not possible to count out the lanes of the Old City so that each of them is controlled by only one faith, one ethnicity. (Clinton proposed "shared functional sovereignty" for the Old City.) Dividing Jerusalem, says Daniel Seidemann, a lawyer and expert on Jerusalem affairs, is "a political impossibility and a historical inevitability...
...parents have become convinced that the more math and reading skills their tots master, the better. Srinivas Rao, a veterinarian in Columbia, Md., began sending his daughter Sanjana to after-school tutoring last summer, shortly before her third birthday. To his delight, he soon found she could not only count the 14 dots on her homework work sheet but also write 14 beside them. "I didn't think kids could just learn that overnight," he marvels...
...telling candidates that we're the problem solvers of our communities," Mills says. "And you can see many of them having that 'aha' moment." But Egger and his comrades are walking a tightrope. For one thing, they risk alienating the donors on whom they count on for operating funds. More significantly, they could be breaking the law. Nearly all nonprofits are set up under Section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS code, which grants them tax-exempt status if they agree to stay out of politics - only 20% of their budgets can go to political or lobbying work, which must...
Fini and several others, are just hoping the man dubbed "Il Cavaliere" will quietly fade into the sunset, and make room for them to lead the center-right. But don't count on it. Berlusconi watchers - and doubters - have learned over the years not to count him out too quickly. In the weeks leading up to the April 2006 election, Berlusconi trailed by double digits in the polls. But then the Old Silvio kicked into gear: he made unrealistic but enticing promises to eliminate the housing tax, at a small meeting of business leaders, he used a vulgar expression...
...almost a year, nary a day has gone by - or so it seems to us Iowans - without a public appearance by one of the 16 candidates (at last count) expounding on the war and the economy, immigration and terrorism, health care and education, and, of course, agriculture and ethanol. As I type on this blustery November day in Des Moines, John Edwards is rallying with picketing nurses at a Dubuque hospital while, in western Iowa, Rudy Giuliani is at a "meet-and-greet" at the B&L Vintage Brew and Sugar Shack in Rock Rapids...