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...Republican political consultant. "Voters aren't ready to go to the ramparts over them, but Arnold realized that these were the things standing in his way if he was really going to change the system. Unlike most politicians, he hasn't spent 20 years working his way up the ladder, waiting for the chance to be Governor. If he's not successful in passing some of these, I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to not run for a second term in 2006. He'll just go home...
...might not have even set foot in a traditional classroom at all. But above all, we can tell parents that the happiest students we know did not burn out in early childhood from constant pressure to succeed, to beat ever increasing odds to reach the next rung of the ladder...
...completed last autumn. The Lindberghs ate dinner and within a very few minutes of 9 p. m. Col. Lindbergh sat down at a desk in his living room facing a window. This window was directly under the one through which the kidnappers entered the nursery upstairs. Their ladder had been in direct view of the chair in which Col. Lindbergh later seated himself. Therefore, it is safe to say that the kidnapping occurred during the brief period between the time when Nurse Betty Gow last saw the child, while the Lindberghs were at dinner, and the time when the child...
Investigations during the next twelve hours, while the entire Atlantic seaboard mobilized public and semi-public posses to catch the kidnappers, revealed no vital clue. A ladder in three sections was discovered abandoned in shrubbery near the house. Officials satisfied themselves that it was the one used to gain access to the nursery. Contrary to original report, the female footprints found nearby have never been connected with the crime, might have been made by servants or family on routine missions about the grounds. Two sets of male footprints--sizes No. 8 and No. 10--were found about the ladder...
Second, rather than pluck promising students from troubled communities to propel them up the social ladder, democratic schools build long-term partnerships with communities near and far to together address their respective needs. Such an approach engages schools in directly tackling community problems—from poverty and crime to pollution and war—rather than extricating a few from social problems, leaving the problem in place for those remaining to endure. In return, the school community gains ongoing, invaluable, hands-on education in addressing public problems...