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...what if your educational goals are simpler? Skeet Savage, mother of six in Covert, Mich., argues that "graduation isn't the ultimate goal for my children. Learning is." There's a little tributary that runs off the home-schooling river called unschooling that espouses such ideas. About 7% of home schoolers today describe themselves as using no particular curricular plan, according to the National Home Education Research Institute. Not all these people would embrace the term unschooling, which sounds so anti-intellectual, but many of them follow the path of no paths, allowing their children to pursue their own interests...
...Strangely enough, of course, the coup leaders' rather hazy plans sound like what Vladimir Putin is trying to achieve. A little more discipline, more state intervention in the economy, law and order. I sometimes wonder if that is why, when Putin wanted to carry out a small covert operation of his own - an intensive series of interviews that led to his campaign biography early last year - he chose a large high-walled brick building on the edge of the city. A strange choice, you would think: It was in the same venue, on August 17 1991, that the coup leaders...
...defection of Jim Jeffords may be remembered as one of the most successful covert operations in American political history, with Democratic leader Tom Daschle as the mastermind and Jeffords as the spy who came in from the cold. But when Jeffords helped blow his own cover, the scene was like something out of Ally McBeal. By last Tuesday morning, rumors had been swirling for days that the Vermont Senator was thinking about leaving the Republican Party. That morning Jeffords stood in a rest room off the Senate floor staring at his haggard face in the mirror. Republican Senator Pat Roberts...
...conflict looks certain to escalate. Orbitz and its backers deny that they are doing anything wrong, while Southwest is receiving overt and covert backing from allies. For instance, the Interactive Travel Services Association, the trade association for online travel agents, has endorsed the lawsuit, saying that it aims "to protect millions of consumers from Orbitz's unfair and deceptive practices...
...First, by Thursday night McCain-Feingold may have an Achilles' heel: non-severability. That vote, a bid to make the entire bill contingent on the constitutionality of all its parts, will attract not only overt enemies of the bill but covert ones too, and could be a close...