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...schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline.” Cohen also testified before the committee. To address these racial disparities, Ogletree suggested the creation of a system that earmarks schools which suspend black students at a disproportionate rate. Ogletree testified alongside Cohen, Rev. Al Sharpton, local U.S. District Attorney Donald W. Washington, and others. Ogletree, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978, said in an interview that he is often asked for advice on legal issues by committee chairman Rep. John Conyers, Jr. At Harvard, Ogletree is the director of the Houston Institute for Race & Justice, a center focused on resolving...
...resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary results released mid-day Monday, the PO received 45% of the vote, compared to just over 30% for the PIS. PO leader Donald Tusk, the likely Prime Minister in a coalition government, said last night: "I am the happiest man in the world...
...most likely candidate to become Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, comes from a small ethnic group known as Kaszebe (Kashubians) from the region around Gdansk on the Baltic coast. Like many Polish politicians, he is a veteran of the Solidarity trade union movement; he joined its student wing as a young history student, and as a result was forced to work as a manual laborer under martial law. Tusk is a familiar figure in the country's post-communist era, having served as deputy speaker of the Senate from 1997 to 2001 and as deputy speaker of the more powerful lower...
...People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution ... When people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place.' DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, comparing the territory's campaign for universal suffrage to the social upheaval caused by Mao Zedong's anti-rightist purges in the 1960s, during a radio interview. Tsang apologized for his comments after an outcry from pro-democracy lawmakers...
...reasonable person's shortlist to be Gates' replacement as Defense Secretary in a Democratic administration. Hamre, from South Dakota, is an affable 57-year-old who is known to be concerned about the health of the services in the future and yet managed to get along with Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld. As one longtime Pentagon official told TIME, "John is just an all around stand-up guy. We'd be lucky to have him back...