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...harmonious teacher-parent relations, interested parties are brimming with ideas. Some parents are less concerned about raw teachers than about older, jaded ones. "Education departments need to give these teachers options to move on and do something outside the classroom," says the P. & C.'s Brownlee. "We're too narrow in our thinking." Some schools issue to parents written guidelines on how to approach teachers, explicitly forbidding bad language and threatening behavior...
When Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schröder snatched a narrow electoral victory in 2002, he garnered desperately needed votes by opposing George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq. Now, in the run-up to crucial elections in North Rhine-Westphalia later this month, his party has launched a new assault. This time the target is Anglo Saxon-style capitalism. Franz Müntefering, chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), inveighed against "swarms of locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked...
After Brown scored two goals of its own to narrow the gap following Harvard’s 7-0 run, Schoen reclaimed the momentum for the Crimson, scoring twice in just twelve seconds as the first half wound to a close...
...Senate Democrats] disapprove of a nominee they should vote against that nominee, rather than stalling the business of the Senate seeking judges that pass a narrow, partisan litmus test,” the statement said...
...against a legislative privilege, however, represents a new perversion of our political leaders. Students should be concerned, not only because it threatens our freedom to dissent and operate freely in a secular academic sphere, but because it threatens to shepherd judges into power who will influence our lives and narrow our freedoms as individual Americans long after Dr. Frist has been replaced in Washington...