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...most intense education battle in Cambridge this year, four School Committee members have taken on Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) Principal Paula M. Evans over parental choice within the city's only public high school--and the furor that followed has caught all involved off-guard...
...furor over sampling in the late 1990s, reasonable arguments were few and far between. After all, there are no Democratic or Republican statistical techniques--there are only Democratic and Republican voters, and the immigrants and urban poor who are frequently missed by such surveys generally fall in the former category. As could be expected, the debate turned on whose ox was gored; in 1991, Newt Gingrich wrote a letter urging the use of sampling to correct an undercount in Georgia, but six years later, as the GOP recognized the potential of sampling to increase Democratic influence, he wrote a similar...
...prepared to restrain the Yugoslav army as long as NATO remains prepared to do curb the guerrillas, but that may put Western troops on a collision course with the Albanian nationalists. There's plenty of room for more fighting inside Kosovo and elsewhere in the region, and the furor in NATO over the use of depleted-uranium weapons in the Balkans may signal growing discord in the alliance...
...double jeopardy, and question the fairness of giving the prosecution a second chance in a setting whose evidentiary standards are not those of a courtroom. And even before that to the media, once again - CNN led Tuesday with a summary of the evidence Freeh will present. But given the furor following Lee's release, the FBI will no doubt defend itself on the grounds that it feels compelled to explain its behavior - in other words, it's not vindictively painting the scientist as shifty about his dealings with the agents and nuclear scientists of a rival nation after failing...
...conditions attached to WTO membership as a whip with which to dramatically accelerate the pace of economic reform, but Zhu has been increasingly marginalized over the past 18 months, particularly after President Clinton backed out of concluding a permanent trade agreement last April at the height of the furor over allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage...