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...fire. Six soldiers died in the blast and two others were wounded, according to UNIFIL. Near the UNIFIL vehicle was the twisted wreckage of a civilian car containing human remains. An initial report that the explosion was caused by a powerful roadside bomb was later discounted in favor of the suicide car bomber. "We are working on the theory of a terrorist attack," said Spanish Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso. "In the last few weeks there have been many incidents which have destabilized Lebanon...
...quality of the schools themselves is the key reason that parents leave, contradicting claims by many elected officials, who have blamed the high cost of Cambridge housing for pricing younger families out of the city. The 48-page study also found that parents who have left the system also favor a broader curriculum and less emphasis on testing, and that there is overwhelming opposition to expanding the school day from six to eight hours, as two elementary schools have recently done...
Fifty-one percent of potential parents believe that the controlled-choice system needs to be reevaluated, while 19 percent favor it in its current form and 30 percent are unsure...
What other solutions do you favor? We need three things: sentencing reform, better prison rehabilitation programming, and parole reform. Part of our problem is structural. Under our current sentencing law, we can send people back to prison for technical parole infractions. [Some other states only order jail time or community punishments for technical parole violations.] So, parole violators just keep churning in and out of our prison system, serving very short terms. We should change that practice and handle very low-risk, non-serious, non-violent parole violators in the community. California could reduce its prison population by adopting this...
...energy legislation is not finished by the middle of this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened to pull it in favor of the immigration bill, though he has promised to finish the measure before July 4 recess. The bill probably has enough in it pleasing to other constituencies - farming states love the biofuel provision, wind states like the renewable incentives and most Democrats want to see the tax breaks for oil and gas companies go away - to pass Congress. But Democrats will have their work cut out for them to appease environmental groups if the bill is passed...