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Eight of the nine Democatic hopefuls appeared at the event designed to appeal to youth voters, 18-25. Representative Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., who spoke at Harvard Monday night, chose to skip the event to campaign in Iowa...
...pen—he has anxiously awaited the chance to sign away “an abhorrent practice and continue to build a culture of life in America.” But the only abhorrent thing about this bill is that, as Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) declared, it denies women their rights of privacy and choice and demotes them to the rank of “second-class citizens...
...acutely worried about the subjectivity. Parents have already called to say they don't understand how a 3 differs from a 4. In response, the board is conducting further studies of the test and developing more consistent, less pliable 1-to-6 scoring points. Graders hired by an Iowa City, Iowa, company, Pearson Educational Measurement, will actually score the essays. Pearson trains its scorers to follow the 1-to-6 guide closely. Two of them will read each essay, and on the basis of the firm's experience with exams in Texas and elsewhere, they will disagree only...
...week. "I will support the $87 billion," Gephardt said, "because it is the only responsible course of action. We must not send an ambiguous message to our troops, and we must not send an uncertain message to our friends and enemies in Iraq." This will not help Gephardt in Iowa, but it was an act of courage--Lieberman has made a habit of such acts in this campaign--and a stark contrast to the position taken by both Kerry and Clark, the two alleged warriors in the Democratic field...
...doesn't welcome you by name and tell you that "we still have those chinos in your size," as in the movie Minority Report, where talking billboards plug products to Tom Cruise's Detective John Anderton. But Whispering Windows, a new audio system from ETREMA Products, based in Ames, Iowa, at least sings to passersby, bringing us a little closer to that sci-fi future...