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...Miller and Kennedy hope to pass a new and improved version of the law by year's end. If that doesn't happen, the current law--with all its flaws--will remain in force, probably until a new Administration tackles the matter...
There is no shortage of ideas for improving No Child Left Behind. Senator Edward Kennedy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Congressman George Miller, Kennedy's counterpart in the House, are sorting through a mind-numbing number of proposals to address AYP's shortcomings, lackluster state standards, curriculum narrowing and remedies for failing schools as well as issues concerning the law's requirement for a "qualified teacher" in every classroom and other concerns...
...Coen brothers have adapted literary works before. Miller's Crossing was a sly, unacknowledged blend of two Dashiell Hammett's tales, Red Harvest and The Glass Key; and O Brother Where Art Thou? transferred The Odyssey to the American south in the 1930s. But No Country for Old Men is their first film taken, pretty straightforwardly, from a prime American novel: Cormac McCarthy's 2005 rumination on the changing ways of crime in West Texas...
...September 2003, Major General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the secret U.S. detention center for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, visited Iraq to straighten out the prison. He recommended that the MPs should act not just as guards but as "enablers for interrogation." In November, a second visiting general advised the exact opposite, saying MPs should have nothing to do with interrogation. The conflict had apparently not been resolved by the prison's top brass when the photographed abuses occurred...
Once all the apologies were spoken, a battered Administration was searching for more tangible ways to repair the damage. Major General Miller has been hustled back to Baghdad to fix the prison system. He promised to halve the number of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and end the practice of hooding captives. But he refused to entirely rule out the use of other tactics, like sleep deprivation and "stress positions," if they were approved by a senior officer. A senior Pentagon official says Rumsfeld has taken a personal interest in coming up with a dollar figure to compensate Iraqis who have...