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...party from the grass roots up--through recruiting, training and supporting down-ballot candidates for state office. The party has a bright future. It is being built in the states where the next generation of leaders is winning elections by advancing new ideas while adhering to conservative principles. The plight of Republicans in Washington does not reflect the true standing of the party. To paraphrase Mark Twain, we believe the reports of the Republican Party's demise are greatly exaggerated. Scott Ward, President, Republican State Leadership Committee ALEXANDRIA...
...plight of Zimbabwean journalists remains dire. Earlier in May, two Zimbabwe Independent editors, Vincent Kahiya and Constantine Chimakure, were arrested for publishing a story the government said was "materially false and meant to make the public develop hatred towards the police." The paper had written a story revealing names of police officers who had allegedly tortured human-rights activists in jail. "It seems there is still a long way to go insofar as human-rights issues are concerned," says Leonard Makombe, a political commentator. "That might strangle the government, as it depends on Western aid for survival. That...
...said to occasionally rock back and forth with apparent anxiety. And then there are reports of her eating her own feces. But does that add up to mental illness? Determining depression, let alone among nonverbal members of the animal kingdom, is always tricky business. But such is Susi's plight that the Queen of Spain and a famous writer have weighed in. And so now, the question about what to do with Barcelona Zoo's star elephant has taken on new urgency...
...cause of the earthquake parents has proven different. Not only do the parents continue to have a vast reservoir of sympathy from ordinary Chinese for their plight, they also have Ai Weiwei, an unusual champion whose determination not to let the issue be buried under bureaucratic obfuscations and strong-arming is - if anything - even greater than their own. On May 5, having steadfastly refused to do so for the past year, authorities released an estimate that 5,335 students died in the quake - a concession that was widely viewed as being forced by Ai's unrelenting campaign and the work...
...most college students, the formerly dreaded SAT has become nothing more than an irrelevant number from the past. But for Jason Y. Shah ’11, the plight of SAT prep for high school students is the basis of his enterprise, INeedAPencil.com. Unlike more famous companies such as Kaplan and Princeton Review, which often charge several hundred dollars for a preparatory course, is geared toward low-income and underprivileged students.“WRITING” THE PROGRAMShah says he was inspired to start the project in fall 2006 as a junior in high school. While helping some sixth...