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...suspect your child has dyslexia, it's never too early to do something about it. Talk to your child's teacher and educate yourself about the laws that govern special education. The earlier you intervene, the better your child's chances of becoming a fluent reader. --By Sora Song...
...short, Hong Kong people are ready to govern themselves in reality, not just in theory. Beijing must realize that its efforts to control Hong Kong have damaged the territory's fragile society and that it needs to repudiate this policy. That's not such a difficult decision. The Basic Law allows for the Chief Executive to be democratically elected in 2007 and all members of the Legislative Council to be democratically elected in 2008. China's leaders should take the initiative and state that they will not only allow but indeed encourage fully democratic elections...
...THINK HILLARY CLINTON HAS DONE AS A SENATOR? She has a very different philosophy, a very different approach to govern-ment. So it would be hard from my perspective and philosophy to evaluate her performance. For example, I am a very, very big supporter of a reduction in the capital-gains tax and a reduction in taxation to stimulate the economy. I saw it work as mayor of New York City. I reduced the hotel-occupancy tax 30plus percent, and the hotel-occupancy receipts went up 60 percent. Lower federal tax rates mean more dollars in the New York economy...
...comes as no surprise that the relationship between the professional classes of the supposedly autonomous Special Administrative Region and the handpicked mandarins who govern them is in this parlous state. Beijing's high-handed manner?and the supine appeasement with which the Hong Kong government generally greets its pronouncements?has left many feeling voiceless over the past six years...
...suspicious of U.S. intentions, while the U.S. is on the lookout for Iranian influence. The Shiite clerics that have stepped into the leadership vacuum left by the regime's collapse have mostly avoided confrontation with the U.S. and British authorities, but continue to demand the right of Iraqis to govern themselves. The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq is particularly unhappy about Bremer's decision to scrap plans to elect an Iraqi interim government at a national assembly that would have been held in July. And they are complying with Bremer's order that all militia be disarmed...