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...then Thursday morning, on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander delivered a speech in which he promised to introduce legislation in a few weeks that would more or less make the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group proposals of last December (which emphasized the training of Iraqi forces at the core of the U.S. military mission in Iraq) as "the basis for future U.S. strategy in Iraq." Alexander's measure is not a resolution; if passed, it would go to the President's desk for his signature - or veto...
...surf the television any night of the week to see show after show dealing with murder, rape, stalkers, violence toward police, gangs, war and domestic violence. Ours is a culture in which The Sopranos is considered great entertainment. What entertains you becomes a part of you. Anne M. Perry, HAMILTON, NEW YORK...
...York discovered that its most vulnerable ninth-graders--the weak readers--were much more likely to stay on track toward graduation at the city's newer and smaller high schools than at its large conventional ones. "A big aha," says Hamilton, "is that a single strategy was not going to work. You need a portfolio of strategies." In the wake of the report, the city has examined what the best transfer schools, YABCs and GED programs were doing right and is trying to replicate them citywide...
...students who don't graduate on time are labeled failing. By that definition, YABCS and transfer schools fail no matter how brilliant a job they are doing. "It's hard to get partners to invest and hard to attract strong leaders when the school is labeled failing," says Hamilton...
...environment. This massive urbanization is taxing public infrastructure, such as roads, railways, health-care systems, power networks and water resources. In the old industrial countries, infrastructure is aging. In the developing world, the infrastructure needed to sustain a modern economy often doesn't exist. A study by Booz Allen Hamilton concludes that from now until 2030, the world will spend $41 trillion just to maintain infrastructure at current levels. Kleinfeld, 49, the CEO of Siemens, which makes everything from power plants and water systems to CT scanners and dishwashers, was determined to be the go-to guy to take care...