Word: exits
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...Mormon Church is not the only group being singled out for criticism. African Americans, 70% of whom voted yes on Prop. 8, according to a CNN exit poll, have become a target. According to eyewitness reports published on the Internet, racial epithets have been used against African Americans at protests in California - with some even directed at blacks who are fighting to repeal Prop. 8. Said Evan Wolfson, executive director of nonprofit group Freedom to Marry: "In any fight, there will be people who say things they shouldn't say, but that shouldn't divert attention from what the vast...
...Fowler-Finn said that his early exit was merely a matter of taking his vacation days and allowing a smooth transition for current Deputy Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk to preside over the year’s budget deliberations as interim superintendent...
...school department staff member said that “the school committee expedited having him exit before February” to prevent Fowler-Finn from having further power over decisions for the district, especially those regarding the renewal of school principal contracts...
...Former school committee member Glenn S. Koocher ’71, however, said that most contracts were renewed last year and that he does not think they factor in Fowler-Finn’s early exit. Koocher—who is executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees—added that the superintendent is legally entitled to his paid vacation time...
...receding in importance as a post-'60s generation grows to adulthood. Foreign policy doesn't divide Democrats as bitterly as it used to either because, in the wake of Iraq, once-hawkish working-class whites have grown more skeptical of military force. In 2004, 22% of voters told exit pollsters that "moral values" were their top priority, and 19% said terrorism. This year terrorism got 9%, and no social issues even made the list...