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...think that once we realized we had lapsed a little, we wanted to come back that much harder,” she said. “It wasn’t a time to think, ‘Oh shoot—they’re coming back.’ It was time to think, ‘Okay, we have to kick it up a notch...
While the governor's office became the stage for much of the drama, state lawmakers worked to fund the education budget in order to do away with the furloughs. But negotiations that involved the governor, the teachers' union and the state board of education have gone nowhere. At one point, Lingle proposed $62 million to close the gap, but the union and board say that any solution will cost the state $92 million. The Democratic-controlled state legislature ends its 120-day session on April 29, but lawmakers fear that even if the funds are allotted, Lingle, a staunchly antiunion...
...past, Katyn signified mass murder committed in 1940 in a forest just west of the Russian town of Smolensk by troops of the Soviet Union, who killed defenseless Polish prisoners of war. The victims of the atrocity accounted for much of Poland's military as well as intellectual elite. The second Katyn tragedy - the April 10 crash on the approach to Smolensk airport of a plane carrying dignitaries to a ceremony commemorating that very 1940 massacre - led to the death of nearly 100 of the top political personalities of a newly independent, and once again democratic, Poland. Those who died...
...message Syria is trying to send through stepping up weapons shipments, the exercise could backfire. "Assad says he wants talks with Israel, but doubling down on Hizballah isn't going to make the Israelis come running, especially not a Likud government," says Tabler. "It makes a war that much more likely...
...enemy - and with a command structure that is tangled in bureaucracy and paralyzed by the incompetence and corruption of the local Afghan leadership. Indeed, as the struggle to open the school - or get anything of value at all done in Senjaray - progressed, the metaphor was transformed into a much bigger question: If the U.S. Army couldn't open a small school in a crucial town, how could it expect to succeed in Afghanistan? (See pictures of President George W. Bush in the Middle East...