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...town of Portlaoise, home to about 15,000 people, is a pleasant if ordinary place, a convenient base for commuters an hour outside of Dublin, halfway to Limerick. The signs of immigration here are inescapable. Town streets boast Indian restaurants, Polish delis and construction galore...
...prep English but core-level math. I sat in on the Algebra II class one day, but it wasn't so much a traditional class as a study session guided by the teacher, Darren Ripley. Kids worked from different parts of the textbook. (One 11-year-old was already halfway through; most Americans who take Algebra II do so at 15 or 16.) Occasionally Ripley would show a small group how to solve a problem on the whiteboard, but there was no lecture...
...Duffy's recommendations are so similar to those of the Iraq Study Group that it is heartbreaking. We could be halfway through the painful troop withdrawal if the Bush Administration had simply listened to the experts on that bipartisan commission. Meanwhile, China continues its economic growth, gleefully holding our enormous debt, which finances the Iraq debacle. Our economic future frightens me far more than the insecurity of the Middle East. Sharon R. Clark, Mammoth Lakes, Calif...
Though only halfway through the summer and still over a month before classes start up, it is only a matter of time before “Back to School” signs begin appearing in the windows of local retailers and the weight of our academic careers will be heavy upon students once more...
Americans would be forgiven for thinking there's a major debate under way in Washington over whether or not the U.S. should leave Iraq. The Senate is halfway through two weeks of fierce fighting over setting timelines, enforcing benchmarks and generally trying to pressure the White House to reduce the number of American troops there. President Bush held a lengthy press conference Thursday, in which he hinted he might change course on the war after his generals report to him in September. Once they've done so, he said, "We'll use that data... to, you know, make another decision...