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...Improving education was not on the nation’s front burner in those years,” Holton said. “I saw the whole thing slipping into oblivion. [Former President Ronald Reagan] attempted to dismantle everything that was dear...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Experts Debate Public Schools | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...blush And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poems excerpted from 'Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660-1810' | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

...speech, congressional Republicans applauded President Bush's plan to pass a $400 billion Medicare reform package before 2004. But some Republicans on Capitol Hill who have fought and lost many Medicare battles fear the White House is too distracted by Iraq and the economy to deliver on an issue dear to their constituents. They say they are concerned they will be stuck defending a plan they don't fully support, without even the help of the President's megaphone. "I'm worried that once the war begins we're going to be on our own," said an influential House Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Bush's Medicare Plan Got A Chance? | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...Dear Judge...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum's New Novel Takes on Death Penalty | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...anti-choice forces which are currently on the offensive, desperately fighting to chip away at every small reproductive right we hold dear. This December, for instance, the Bush administration appointed religious extremist David M. Hagar, MD, to the Food and Drug Administration’s reproductive health committee, a man who is notorious for prescribing biblical scriptures to cure premenstrual syndrome and for his refusal to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. The current administration has also allotted $135 million to abstinence-only education, which not only forbids the mention of condoms by teachers except to talk about their failure...

Author: By Abigail L. Fee, | Title: Speak Up for Roe | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

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