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Instead of drawing boundary lines to determine the student bodies of each of Cambridge's 12 primary schools—a process that many officials say would be too divisive and could lead to de facto segregation—the district allocates students using a plan, known as controlled-choice, that seeks to ensure that the schools are socioeconomically balanced...
...word amnesty was still used as a cudgel at the G.O.P. debate - McCain's rivals clobbered him with the term, and he turned it on them as well, saying that doing nothing is "silent and de facto amnesty." Why are the bill's supporters so skittish about the word? If the past five years of immigration debate have taught us anything, it's that railing against the illegal invasion is easy, popular and effective. Now politicians are being roasted for conceding a reality: illegal or not, most of those 12 million are here to stay...
...Serbian province of Kosovo, whose 2 million people are predominantly ethnic Albanians and want independence, has been administered as a U.N. protectorate since NATO's 78-day bombing campaign forced Serbian withdrawal in 1999. Now, U.N.'s special envoy Marti Ahtisaari has proposed de facto independence under European Union supervision for Kosovo, with a view to subsequently integrating both it and Serbia into the EU. Ahtisaari's plan is backed by the U.S. and NATO countries, but Russia strongly objects to what it describes as a dangerous precedent for separatists elsewhere. And as an historical ally of Serbia, Russia cannot...
...chants—“rah, rah, don’t pay workers trash”—and unsubstantiated allegations. Without offering any concrete evidence, the campaign has accused AlliedBarton of “a rash of [retaliatory] terminations,” “de facto union busting,” and other such nefarious deeds. Other SfS complaints include the security guards’ “low morale” and “stress” resulting from the company’s “aggressive” negotiating tactics. SfS?...
...system that chooses high- and low-skilled workers according to economic demand and limits those who can come with them to spouses and minor children. In exchange for Bush's commitment to that reform, Kyl and his allies would break with many of their fellow Republicans and back de facto amnesty for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants...