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...acknowledged the need to improve America's teaching force and better prepare new teachers. Recruitment programs, he said, need to be initiated to counter the chronic teacher shortage in the K-12 system. Finally, he said teacher salaries need to be increased so that the teaching profession is more attractive...
...anti-Marcos street rallies. The second interpretation of events is that the people were driven by moral indignation. The forces of righteousness, represented by Corazon Aquino and Catholic prelate Jaime Cardinal Sin, rallied the masses against a President up to his neck in booze, broads and below-the-counter business deals. This analysis has appeal in the predominantly Catholic Philippines, and Aquino and Sin knew...
...Bush and others defending the plan counter that it's wrong to discriminate against groups that provide valuable social services simply because they have religious roots. And there is evidence from at least once source that faith-based groups are getting plenty of business - and attracting plenty of volunteer participation. Independent Sector, a nonprofit organization that supports the President's initiative, has issued a study underlining the social impact of America's 353,000 religious congregations. According to that report, nine in 10 congregations provide services beyond spiritual programs, including health, education and arts programs. It's precisely those programs...
...says, it is time for the U.S. to cough up some funds. "If they don't our soldiers will disappear and al-Qaeda will come back," he warns. But Pachakhan certainly will not give up that easily. In Khost, counter-terror operations are an extension of local politics. Pachakhan is hunting down al-Qaeda in his region to "protect our family and friends," says his brother-minister, Amanullah. A top al-Qaeda leader in the area, the brothers claim, is old rival Jamaludin Haqqani, a former mujahedin in Soviet times and later a Taliban minister, who squeezed the royalists...
...Besides the conventional media links (including TIME Europe's), a group of skeptical non-governmental organizations locked out of the gab-with-Gates circuit are mounting an a counter conference under the banner Public Eye on Davos in the heart of the town...