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...apparently misread the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, which you say indicates that 1 in 5 Americans identifies with the Tea Party movement. In the initial screening question, 34% of the respondents said they had heard or read "nothing" about the Tea Party movement. Of those who indicated they knew something about it (66%), including those who said "not much" (21%), just 18% considered themselves to be a "supporter of the Tea Party movement." That works out to a little less than 12% of the complete sample...
...prominent education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education, stands at the intersection of the two spheres. Once a proponent of charter schools, standardized testing and merit pay, Ravitch now uses Death and Life to proclaim her ardent opposition to the seemingly unstoppable engine of the education-reform movement, which she believes is too quick to demonize teachers and unions in its attempts to improve the quality of the nation's schools and close the achievement gap. With scathing looks at the influence of private money in public schools and the national obsession with testing over learning, Ravitch's critique...
...hands of the government in Baghdad or dispersed to its provinces and regions. The centralizers include al-Maliki's Shi'ite-dominated State of Law coalition, which is running on its record of providing security and disarming Iraq's militias. The more Sunni and secular Iraqi National Movement, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, is likewise in favor of a strong central government. The push for decentralization is represented by the ruling parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government and an alliance of Shi'ite parties - led by Ammar al-Hakim and chastened warlord Muqtada al-Sadr, among others - that...
...Crist's strategy has focused on debunking Rubio's credentials - not only as a fiscal conservative but as the kind of scrupulous antipolitician the Tea Party movement gushes over. Crist's campaign points to the $250 million in pork-barrel spending Rubio ushered into his Miami district from 2000 to 2008, and the recent revelations of Rubio's American Express purchases have sparked charges of hypocrisy. From 2005 to 2008, Rubio racked up thousands of dollars in personal charges on his GOP AmEx, from the upscale barber to musical equipment, despite party and IRS rules that require the card...
...bombings and ambushes in southern Afghanistan over the past year that have killed dozens of NATO troops (and which killed more than 30 people in a series of bombings in Kandahar over the weekend). He is believed to have assumed overall responsibility for Taliban military operations from the movement's No. 2, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is in Pakistani detention after being arrested last month in Karachi. Zakir is hardly an isolated case. In 2008, the Pentagon claimed that more than 60 former Gitmo detainees were suspected of having rejoined the insurgency. (See portraits of Guantánamo detainees...