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...education. We recognize that both short-term and long-term measures of improving special-needs education require a significant amount of funding that Palin has said a McCain administration will provide as an exception to an overall funding freeze. We are appreciative of such a promise. We do, however, lament that the funding freeze will broadly constrain educational improvements. Although special-needs education is an exceptional case, there are many faults with the general education system that we believe extra funding would help fix.According to a study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, autism spectrum disorders...
...performance was the descent of an enormous, illuminated pumpkin into the ballroom, with Cornejo perched elegantly inside, shrouded in a Cruella de Vil-like fur cape. Bachelors in penguin suits escorted bachelorettes with wonderful gusto. As Prince Charming, Nelson Madrigal had all of the second act to lament in a style reminiscent of Prince Siegfried’s melancholy soliloquy in “Swan Lake.” Though lacking overwhelming charisma, he made up for it with his superb partnering of an audacious Cornejo. Her abrupt, instinctual shifts in direction as she leapt at his shoulder felt...
...service held during the week before Easter—three hours of melancholy psalmody, chanted in a foreign tongue and, at the end when the final candle on the hearse is extinguished, enveloped in complete darkness. Reverent and sublime, indeed, but a dirge first and foremost—a lament for the present day of woe and a longing for a better time since passed...
...Harvard, the conservative reflex has been to lament the despoiled temple—praise the University’s illustrious history while bewailing the perceived decline. To be a conservative means to conserve, of course, but to conserve what? This implies not only that something is worth conserving, something precious, but also something under attack, something to be defended. What at Harvard should a conservative conserve? What is a Harvard conservative...
...latest solo album, “The Year of the Gentleman;” Neo Ne-Yo’s for the ladies. “She’s so much better than me / I’m so unworthy of her!” goes the lament on “Why Does She Stay.” And while he once wasn’t above telling the ladies to look in their girlfriend’s purses for his number, this song reveals a Ne-Yo who’s wracked with guilt over?...