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Secretary of Education Rod Paige says schools must adjust to the law by getting better at teaching kids with wobbly English and offering students other options, such as tutoring, if they are not able to transfer. But if the problems continue, there is the danger that Congress may consider changing the law to leave behind its toughest demands. --With reporting by Simon Crittle/New York, Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Stefanie Friedhoff/Ann Arbor, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines, Maggie Sieger/Chicago and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
...danger is rising. The number of alerts of possible terrorism attacks inside Israel climbed last week to 40 a day, up from an average of 15 a day in August. Israeli commanders in the West Bank say they have taken steps to seize the offensive. A senior Israeli intelligence official says security forces have widened the focus of their raids from "ticking time bombs"--the suicide bombers--to the entire "ticking infrastructure," including the strategists, bombmakers and paymasters. The army's Operation Defensive Shield in spring 2002 left Israeli troops positioned in and around every major Palestinian city...
Avoiding the pass rush on the first series of the third quarter, Schiller rolled out of the pocket and away from danger to find junior wide receiver LeRoy Knight two steps behind his coverage downfield for a touchdown that narrowed the gap to just 11 points...
...there is a danger for Rome in the weakness of Narcissus. Some here murmur for a closer federation—for trade purposes, of course—with the rest of the Greek world. This cannot be allowed by Rome, if we are to maintain our income from the provinces, and, hence, our control of the Empire. Nor can we contemplate the Greeks trading overmuch with the Parthians. We may be at peace with the Parthians now, but they are a looming presence in the East, and, one day, might do more than trade with the Greeks. Compared to such...
...will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." Condi Rice made a similar point in her own remarks debunking the notion that Saddam was directly involved, saying the Iraqi dictator was targeted because he posed a danger in "the region from which the 9/11 attacks emerged...