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...Mongolian part-time model whose naked body was allegedly blown up by military-grade explosives. A former political advisor to Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister charged with abetting the murder of his ex-lover. Two government security agents whom the prosecution alleges carried out the killing of the 28-year-old Mongolian woman. A loyal wife who, despite allegations of her husband's involvement in the plot, has worn a T-shirt to the murder trial that says "Mrs. Abdul Razak Baginda" on the front, "and proud of it" on the back. Welcome to what may be the most sensational...
...Mary and I really got to know Roger at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, when he got us onto the yacht of Lew Grade, the Lord (literally; he'd been knighted) of ITV, and brought us into star-studded cocktail hours at Cannes' posh Majestic Bar; in one conversation about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the smartest comments were made by actor James Woods. ("MIT grad," Roger whispered knowingly.) In between the partying, he managed to keep sending pieces, mostly interviews, back to the Sun-Times. That Cannes, he said, he saw seven movies and wrote 11 columns...
...reducing it by an equal amount. The net effect: no additional carbon in the atmosphere. Of course, this is all strictly voluntary. If you want to be a pig, destroy the earth for future generations and face your kids, who've learned all about global warming in second grade, that's your privilege...
...education in America. So why even talk about it in 2008? Because the public school system has reached a state of near collapse. The latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that only 35% of 12th-graders are "proficient" in reading, which means an eighth-grade level of competence, down from 40% in 1992. More than a quarter (27%) of high school seniors are functionally illiterate. The results are even worse in math. Simply throwing more money at the problem isn't the answer. On K-12 we are spending more than double the amount we spent...
...Fernanda has been in the U.S. since the eighth grade and graduated last year from Beardstown Middle/High School. Those five years of public education represent a significant investment by the U.S. government. And what's the return on that investment? Fernanda had dreams of going to college to study nursing, and Beardstown badly needs bilingual nurses. But she's illegal, and after the deportation of her parents, she has to support the entire family. So she's looking for work at local hog farms, a manual-labor job that does not make the most of her talents. "There...