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...Biden tell 15 documented falsehoods, including the claim that he regularly patronizes Katie's Restaurant, in Wilmington, Delaware, which has been closed for years. Klein's idea of the "unwritten rules" of campaign rhetoric seems to be that the media have the right to selectively use facts to form public opinion and smear the candidate they oppose. Kent Doss, Tubac, Arizona
Ironically, some of the things that have made Pittsburgh seem weak over the years will help protect it. It has large numbers of students and seniors. Seniors have unearned incomes in the form of pensions and Social Security, which puts a floor beneath the economy...
...Some reforms are already underway to help parents understand that college may be more affordable than they think. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings recently unveiled a proposal to simplify the federal financial aid process by shrinking the application form from 100 questions to 26 and allowing students to find out before their senior year of high school how much federal aid they would qualify for. Private universities are also stepping up to the plate, increasingly offering such user-friendly options as online aid calculators to give each student a personalized estimate. Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education...
...country's population being illiterate at a time of 8%-plus growth, the government is also mulling a Right to Education Bill, which would make the right to primary education legally enforceable in a court of law. But child rights activists say the legislation in its present form will only produce a class of semi-literate, semi-educated people and perpetuate social inequity...
...during the three decades in which its leaders endured exile, prison, torture and assassination. But after 14 years as South Africa's ruling party, an internal power struggle appears to have finally torn it apart. Senior members of the party on Wednesday announced plans to leave ANC and form a new political party. At a press conference in Johannesburg, Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, a former political prisoner who served as national chairman of the party and defense minister, said of the present ANC leadership: "We are serving them divorce papers." Lekota said he would convene a national convention of dissatisfied party...