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...largely on the basis of their breast size. They are all in exile of a kind. Ari, Vincent's Kurdish neighbor, has been driven to paranoia by the violence he has witnessed. His friend Ezmir kills himself after "an interview with immigration officers that had not gone in his favor." Vincent observes: "Sometimes, the sheer exertion of living drove a person beyond their limits...
...conspiracy theory, the paper wrote: "Lulled by a triumph in Helsinki, Serbs are expected to calmly swallow the imminent secession of Kosovo." The status of Kosovo, the southern Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, is currently being debated in the United Nations Security Council. The E.U. and U.S. favor granting the territory independence from Serbia, while Moscow sides with Belgrade in opposing it.Still, the same newspaper was no less ecstatic than its rivals when Serifovic actually won: Euromarija! screamed a giant headline, accompanied by a sycophantic story. For one day, at least, old conflicts were forgotten and the nation...
After 47 years in education, I am not surprised that ninth-grade students drop out of public schools, as did one of my grandsons. The problem started many years ago, when junior high schools were dropped in favor of middle schools. We need to return to having junior high serve Grades 7 through 9 and high school serve Grades 10 through 12. Sixth-graders are not ready for middle school; they are still immature. And ninth-graders struggling with the transition into their teen years face similar problems. Let's reconsider how we group students...
Most Republicans can ignore this extremism. But not anyone running for President. It is a special problem for former Governor Mitt Romney and former mayor Rudy Giuliani, both of whom used to favor abortion rights. Their different solutions test the question, What is the best way to safely dispose of a fundamental moral belief that you wish you didn't have...
Even so, the demographic trends here don't favor the Republicans. George (who ran for land commissioner in 2002 as "a lifelong friend of President George W. Bush") pointedly noted that the President, a longtime Texan who is expected to move to Dallas and build his library here after he leaves the White House, carried the county with just 50.1% of the vote in 2004. Dallas has long had a large African-American population, and now nearly a third of Dallas County is Latino...