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...will always be, your child's first and most important teacher," the letter reads. "Miami-Dade County Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most of that awesome responsibility." You have to admit, it's a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising maxim "Get 'em while they're young." (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
...Genius ... sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.' GEORGE WILL, conservative commentator, citing Charles de Gaulle's maxim in his argument that the U.S. should withdraw from Afghanistan...
Lebanon is an eternal exception to the maxim that all politics is local. With so many foreign powers meddling in the country's perennially sectarian struggle for control, Lebanon functions as a kind of political barometer of the Middle East. And that's why the news Thursday, Sept. 10, that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri had given up trying to form a consensus government three months after his ruling coalition won the country's parliamentary elections is a sign of a more general unease in the region: Lebanon's political crisis - and the broader Middle East cold war of which...
...maxim used to be that if you had to explain a joke, it wasn't funny. It's still true - even with the explanation, we don't get the appeal of something like, say, Robocop on a Unicorn. But for the rest of the Web's inexplicable absurdities, Know Your Meme at least gives you a fighting chance of getting...
...tough could she really be, having learned about politics in a state with almost as many square miles as people? Alaskan feuds are straightforward and personal, against a backdrop of "live and let live." Washington combat has an impersonal cruelty to it, reflected in a maxim of the strategist Lee Atwater: "Never kick a man when he's up." As Barnes and Kristol began feeding Palin's name into the swirl of Washington gossip known as the Great Mentioner, they might have overestimated how ready she was for battle in the big time...