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Miller and other activists agree that seniors were crucial to getting a state-funded universal prekindergarten ballot measure passed in 2002 as well as a Children's Trust fund for Miami-Dade County, both of which raised the kind of pro-kid taxes that Florida retirees traditionally scorn. When the legislature last year crafted what many called an inadequate pre-K plan, thousands of elderly "condo commandos," like the Greater Aventura Citizens Association (GACA) in South Florida, deluged Tallahassee with phone calls and e-mails to help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session...
...Pavano is better than Clement is yet unanswered and certainly not important at this point. Whether any of these new relievers is the goods is not yet important. Whether Manny is moving his feet too much is unimportant. Manny will be fine. A-Rod's error that was so crucial to the Bosox win? It was sweet, but I can't imagine our bete noire will be booting the ball in September...
Leading the league, then, in what seems to be two crucial areas, how has Yale found itself at the bottom of the Red Rolfe standings...
...disparity is the American actors’ lack of nuance. Carell fails to bring the childlike vulnerability to his boss that made Brent almost human; Carell’s creation is more caricature, and the utter lack of sympathy he evokes in the audience seems to leave out a crucial element of the original series. And the Dwight character lacks the sweetness that made Gareth less than unbearable...
...lessons are not all explicitly political. One crucial notion that Harvard students and our president might absorb from time abroad starts in a place called the campus pub—found in most universities outside the Puritan New England belt. It’s not the drinking symbolized by the pub that matters (though a pre-lecture Guinness is delightful). It’s about having one place, one central place, for every single student, whether they’re fomenting revolution or playing a trivia game. My brother met a lass or 10 at his student union, a friend...