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...skills. More important, there is now hope. Despite staggering odds, kids are thinking about the future. There is new respect for the rule of law and support for democracy. Children are learning common languages and even playing soccer together. Schools are not simply teaching the three Rs--they are nation-building...
Still, even in this democratic nation of ours, Presidents have a big imprint on economic policies, if not necessarily outcomes. If Al Gore--or even John McCain--had been the one who moved into the White House in 2001, big tax cuts would not have been at the top of the presidential agenda. But with George W. Bush, who never met an economic problem he didn't think could be solved by reducing tax rates, they were...
...debate about repealing or amending the archaic and discriminatory Act of Settlement. However, few serious and responsible politicians support taking such action, not because of religious bigotry, but because of political considerations. While anti-Catholic laws and provisions have no place in modern democratic societies, much less a nation as multicultural and pluralistic as Britain, any amendment to the Act of Settlement will greatly exacerbate the fragile political and constitutional state that Britain is currently in and could conceivably result in the break-up of the United Kingdom and Canada as we know them today...
...spot, the Bantams' Baset Chaudhry took down sophomore Colin West, 9-2, 9-6, 9-3. Individually Chaudhry ranks second in the nation while West ranks sixth. West hadn’t lost a game all season until yesterday’s match...
...When first released, Penn’s films were groundbreaking for their graphic representations of violence and social tensions that had been previously absent in movies, which Penn said was intended to echo the brutal assassinations of prominent leftist individuals, the rebellious youth and counter-cultural movements sweeping the nation, and the hostile oppositional beliefs so prevalent in American society at the time. Penn described a snapshot of the atmosphere of American society at the time that he was directing his movies. “We were living in a period when two Kennedys had been killed, Martin Luther King...