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...Becoming smarter about new sources of information. In an age of overflowing information and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process what's coming at them and distinguish between what's reliable and what isn't. "It's important that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act on it," says Dell executive Karen Bruett, who serves on the board of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group of corporate and education leaders focused on upgrading American education...
...Democratic legislation as an opportunity to change the terms of debate. Frequently apt to learn the wrong lessons from elections, and eager to interpret any gains as a sign of support for big government, Democrats will use their momentum to try to create and expand a host of government programs at taxpayer expense. Republicans should wait for the House to pass several such programs and then expose not only the proposals themselves but also the impact that they will have on the deficit and on taxes. Once we reestablish ourselves as the party of fiscal conservatism, we will regain...
...snapped after 12 hangings, sending a condemned man plummeting 15 ft. through the trap door onto the hard concrete floor below. Miraculously, he survived. "Allah saved me!" he shouted. "Allah saved me!" For 40 minutes, prison guards, officials and witnesses engaged in heated arguments over whether or not to interpret the broken rope as divine intervention...
...Hardly surprising then that not everyone is happy with the Court's interventions. "From a mandate to interpret the law, the courts have redefined their role as wanting to correct aberrations and shortcomings in every walk of life," wrote journalist Harish Khare in the Hindu newspaper. "The rule of law or rather the Constitution [is] in danger of being supplanted by the rule of judges...
...judges aren't inclined to relinquish their role. In a speech last week, Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal made no apologies for the activist approach, arguing that the Supreme Court should not only interpret legislation but should also make sure that other branches of government implement laws to ensure justice to the poor...