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...president’s emphasis on education in the face of economic adversity is the correct approach. Strong schools are integral to a strong workforce and a strong economy, for education is a most potent mechanism for equipping American workers to compete in a global economy. We remain optimistic about actions at both the federal and state level that demonstrate our elected officials’ understanding of the primacy of education. Massachusetts, for example, recently passed a bill doubling the number of charter schools and expanding the powers of superintendents to overhaul failing schools. Even in the face of soaring...
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...emerged from the cab and approached the Plaza, a hodgepodge of teenagers and people who could easily have been that age during the turmoil of the 1970s welcomed us to their Friday night ritual. One of the older members of the group picked up the karaoke microphone. His face illuminated by dangling Christmas lights, he thanked everyone for returning that week. This, of course, is when my dad started searching for “Sabrina...
...after the Vancouver Games, is now wondering if that should change. Poorly handled cases like Semenya's suggest that the system is not working. Many athletes who agree to sex testing only learn of their medical condition from sports officials, which can be a shocking and painful way to face such an intimate revelation. María José Martínez-Patiño, who has AIS, was kicked off the Spanish national team, stripped of her titles and barred from competition in 1986 after gender-verification tests showed she was genetically male. IOC medical officials allowed...
...still traumatized by the alleged abduction, seeing a psychologist twice a week. He also has other worries: he's being investigated by German officials for suspected fraud in a separate case. As for the pensioners, if they're convicted when the trial concludes in late March, they face jail sentences of at least five years apiece. There's a chance that they could be spending their golden retirement days not on a Florida beach but behind bars...