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...created 84,000 new jobs, built a new rail line to boost public transportation, and throughout his public life, he has sought to give voice to those left out of the process, including Native Americans. He balanced five budgets, raised teacher pay dramatically, and fought unemployment down to the lowest levels in 30 years. He has an excellent record on taxes and is consistently rated one of the nation’s most fiscally responsible governors...
...this troop escalation has proven effective, and McCain’s early criticism of Donald Rumsfeld’s tactics was correct. Last year, American casualties declined in Dec. 2007 to 23 from a peak of 121 in May 2007. This 81 percent decrease over eight months marks the lowest number of casualties since...
...embracing the option. Life without parole doesn't trigger the separate sentencing trials and automatic appeals that can make death sentences so financially and emotionally costly. As a result, prosecutors are seeking and juries are delivering far fewer death sentences: last year's total of 110 was the lowest since the introduction of the modern death-penalty system. Nationwide, the number of death sentences has fallen almost two-thirds, and the trend extends even to Texas, the heart of the death-penalty machine. There, 14 prisoners were sentenced to death in 2006, compared with 40 a decade earlier...
Fears about immigration and border control led to increased surveillance in many countries, according to the report, with new database and fingerprinting systems. The U.S., where these concerns are high, was the lowest-ranked democracy, with what the report calls "endemic" surveillance...
...churches they join, say conversion is a way to escape their place in the complex social hierarchy of Hindu caste. While discrimination based on caste has been officially barred for years, it lives on in many parts of society. For groups such as the Dalits, or "untouchables", occupying the lowest rung of the caste ladder, it can mean a life of hardship; unsurprisingly, it is this group that accounts for the most converts to Christianity. By becoming Christian, converts say, they move outside the caste system and can hopefully become more socially mobile...