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...what several educators say is an unusual affront to academic freedom, a new law signed by President Bush in December requires all schools that receive federal funding to honor the anniversary of the Constitution’s adoption with a lesson on the nation’s founding document...
...entered politics in 1991, joining a variety of short-lived post-Solidarity parties before co-founding Civic Platform. Once a staunch anticommunist, he has recently cultivated an image as a "moderate, liberal" politician with solid family values. Unlike Kaczynski, he eschews heated anticommunist rhetoric, promising instead to restore "dignity, honor and unselfishness" to Polish political life. And he has thrown himself into the campaign with a vengeance, stumping through the August holidays and dotting the countryside with huge billboards extolling president tusk: a man with principles. The strategy has paid off. Tusk was polling at just 19% in early August...
...MATTHEWS, 111, oldest of the "Buffalo soldiers," a legendary regiment of black G.I.s who fought frontier wars with Native Americans (they nicknamed the soldiers, whose curly black hair reminded them of a buffalo's mane), laid hundreds of miles of roads and telegraph lines and won 20 Medals of Honor; in Washington. One of the World War II veteran's early missions was tracking Mexican bandit Pancho Villa along the Mexican border. "I never met him," Matthews said, "but I knew where...
...It’s a tremendous honor to be selected by my peers. We’ve got a great team with a great group of guys, and it makes my job that much easier. It’s exciting to be able to lead the team into battle, and I look forward to doing it on Saturday...
...APPROVED. Plans to honor former Chinese Communist Party leader HU YAOBANG at Beijing's Great Hall of the People; by President Hu Jintao; in Beijing. The celebration of the 90th anniversary of the late leader's birth will end more than a decade of official silence about his legacy. His April 1989 death sparked pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square that were crushed in the massacre seven weeks later...