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Regardless of any Supreme Court decision, the federal government should take steps to reform AmeriCorps, even beyond the original guidelines set by the federal district court. Monitored teachers in parochial schools will not produce the desired improvements to the national educational system. The way to fix public schools is to give them the support they need, and AmeriCorps should do just that. Religious schools serve an important role in the realm of American education, but programs aimed at improving the educational system should not be aimed at directly improving religious schools...
...year. "It's going to force our coaches to take a look at the type of people they have in their program, and I think it will change how you recruit coaches," says University of Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart. "We don't want coaches who want a quick fix...
...anything in politics. Georgia and Ukraine prove that when the people trust in themselves, the politicians grow compliant. Is the drive behind the orange revolution fizzling out? The festive part is all forgotten. Our drive now is in working hard. It will likely take more time and effort to fix things than we ever supposed. What are your priorities as Prime minister? We knew the country was in bad shape; we didn't know just how bad it was. We have to tackle the moral and financial degradation of the state - widespread corruption, shadow businesses, a stagnating economy - right away...
Sachs accidentally inserted himself into history. A star at Harvard--he was a tenured professor at 28--he found himself in 1985 at a seminar about Bolivia, which at the time was being battered by hyperinflation. I can fix that, he blurted. The Bolivians accepted the offer. Sachs neglected to tell them that he had never actually worked on a real live economy. But he soon left for Bolivia and made good on his word, stabilizing the currency. His work for the developing world had begun. He would later develop a radical economic program for the Solidarity-led Polish government...
...Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill expressed a common frustration when he remarked about aid for Africa: "We've spent trillions of dollars on these problems and we have damn near nothing to show for it." O'Neill was no foe of foreign aid. Indeed, he wanted to fix the system so that more U.S. aid could be justified. But he was wrong to believe that vast flows of aid to Africa had been squandered. President Bush said in a press conference in April 2004 that as "the greatest power on the face of the earth, we have...