Word: freedom
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...been missing. For us, there was a profound difference between living together as partners with an uncertain future and being husband and wife. I wonder if Cloud and his partner might still be together, as happy as my wife and I are, if they had been allowed the same freedom to marry. John Martin, San Diego...
...they rattled Musharraf, prompting him to suspend the constitution, dismiss the Supreme Court and lock up hundreds of political and civic leaders. Among them was Ahsan, who has been under house arrest (and briefly in jail) since Nov. 3. It's a telling comment about the state of political freedom in Pakistan that, with the country set to vote in a Feb. 18 general election, its most respected democrat is confined to his home in Lahore's Zaman Park neighborhood. Ahsan, a Cambridge-educated lawyer and former Law Minister, has dropped his own plans to run for Parliament, saying that...
...skies when it opened in 1941. But the resemblance of Charles Foster Kane to publisher William Randolph Hearst cued a campaign to suppress the movie, and Kane flopped in its initial release. In addition, many in the industry rankled at Welles' boy-genius rep and may have resented the freedom this first-timer was given by his studio, RKO. Under these circumstances, it's probably a miracle that the film received nine Oscar nominations, including three for Welles as actor, director and co-screenwriter. In the end, it won only for the screenplay, and John Ford's How Green...
...Ignoring the fact that NCLB was under funded by 12 billion in 2006, one of the biggest problems with the program is that it does not put enough emphasis on rehabilitating schools once they have been deemed in need of improvement. Instead of allowing states complete freedom to fix failing schools, NCLB should put more pressure on the states to spend time and resources on innovative ways to improve failing schools. Each state should be mandated to have a general restructuring plan with specific steps that each school should follow in order to improve standards of education. This plan should...
...July 2003 interview, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the current Hizballah leader, told me that the U.S. accusations against Mughniyah were "just accusations." "Can they provide evidence to condemn Mughniyah?" he asked. But he added "Hajj Imad is among the best freedom fighters in the Lebanese arena. He had a very important role during the occupation [of southern Lebanon by Israel]. But as for his relationship with Hizballah, we maintain the tradition of not discussing names...