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...short answer is, unlike the government, Sarkozy was elected directly by the people for five years, and those same voters will grade his result in future elections," explains political analyst Alain Duhamel. He notes municipal balloting in March will be the first electoral "grade" Sarkozy faces since his presidential victory. And that, he predicts, will doubtless be followed by a major cabinet shuffle no matter what the result. While the first series of evaluations will not have taken place by then, announcing the system now underlines what Duhamel calls Sarkozy's "culture of obtaining results...
...Vice Presidential candidate. The only experience he talks about is his childhood as the son of a poor mill worker who had to borrow money to take him home from the hospital. "I come from a family where people worked in the mills. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education, she came from a family of sharecroppers, she worked hard all of her life. I loved her dearly," Edwards said Wednesday in Burlington. "She would have done anything for me, for my children, for my grandchildren, and my mother and father they were exactly the same way. They...
...educator I found that bright children sent unprepared to school by clueless parents often surpassed their well-trained peers in reading by the end of second grade. The age-old and inexpensive adage that children read to become readers holds true in spite of anxious parents trying to give an edge to their preschoolers. Suzan Davis, IRVINE, CALIF...
...educator I found that bright children sent unprepared to school by clueless parents often surpassed their well-trained peers in reading by the end of second grade. The age-old and inexpensive adage that children read to become readers holds true in spite of anxious parents trying to give an edge to their preschoolers. Suzan Davis, Irvine, Calif...
...perspective about what sports should be at this age." Northwestern is hardly the only prep football powerhouse to face embarrassment of late. Nor are such problems confined to poor minority schools. An investigation recently found that staff at Hoover High School in affluent, mostly white Hoover, Ala., had changed grades for football players. So, while the Northwestern Bulls handily won their second consecutive state championship in last Saturday's final, to Hankerson, "our true state championship comes in March, when our students take the FCAT." His goal: to raise Northwestern's grade, currently an F, to at least...