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...iPhone, Lipitor, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Block-heads paint the public schools as a sacred cow, vouchers as undemocratic, and unionized public school teachers as modern heroes. Were trains so holy that today there are no planes? Was cotton so consecrated that we lack polyester? Likewise, the monopoly local middle school should not consider itself a temple. We cannot forget the lessons of productive innovation when it comes to education. I do not ask that public schools as they exist today be shut down. But I submit that, after the subsidy is shifted to the student, public schools compete against...
...most widely publicized vigilante campaign has emerged across the Texas border in Ciudad Juarez, which has become Mexico's deadliest city with 1,600 murders last year. A self-styled Juarez Citizens' Command sent an e-mail to local media in January saying it will give the government until July 5 to restore order or execute one criminal a day. Signed by "Comandante Abraham," the group claims it is financed by local businessmen, and includes university students, entrepreneurs and professionals in its ranks. It offers to cooperate with military intelligence and says it supports the government, but argues that...
...street. "We invite the people to join our struggle and defend our children who are the future of Mexico," it said on one of the blankets. Unlike the Juarez group, the Guerrero "Army" has been linked to several killings, including the decapitation of an alleged drug dealer in December. Local press allege the group is commanded by a rancher whose children were targeted by the gangs. (See pictures of Mexico City's police fighting crime...
...formation of a government under Netanyahu is going to unfold slowly and uncertainly and will be determined largely by local political concerns impervious to outside influence. Most likely, they will produce a weak government unwilling and unable to pursue any political objectives with an equally unstable Palestinian government, unified...
...assault began at about 11 p.m. local time, when two light aircraft burst into Colombo. One bomb hit the Inland Revenue Department, but the real target may have been the Sri Lankan Air Force building, which is directly behind it. The government of Sri Lanka says that 27 people were injured and two people died; other sources reported that has many as 40 people were injured. Both planes were shot down, one of them crashing down next to Colombo's international airport, according to the Sri Lankan government...