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...newspaper Al-Arabi, he joined the nonviolent Kifaya! (Enough!) movement in 2004. He has been harassed by security police, and Islamic radicals have publicly denounced him. But despite the outward pessimism in Yacoubian and Chicago, Al Aswany strives to be optimistic about his country's future. He believes some progress has been made, thanks to the courageous efforts of Egyptian judges, teachers, journalists and bloggers in demanding greater freedoms. "Egypt is not the same country it was 10 years ago," he says, sitting down for a cigarette in his dental office after treating a patient one recent evening. "In politics...
...sure, Senator Obama has decried the lack of comprehensive evaluation of student progress and has suggested a tracking and feedback system that would measure both student and teacher performance from year to year. This is a good idea...
...reactionary fervor has played out on the world stage and as Iran’s economy slows, the system seems primed for more upheaval. According to an article in The New York Times yesterday, the Iranian political elite grows more frustrated every day with Ahmadinejad; insistent on progress, they have begun to clamor and sadly, be repressed. Meanwhile, the president clings to his popular image as principled and righteous among the more religious majority. Even under the alien auspices of a theocracy, the similarities of the Iranian electoral system to our own are salient here today as ever...
...think we had a solid showing this weekend,” Petach said. “The biggest thing is that the team has a lot more depth now and we had strong finishes from the whole team. Everyone raced hard and everyone’s making progress from last year...
...have been tasked with pacifying some of the most restive corners of Iraq - contributing to the measure of stability enjoyed by the country in the last few months. "We're paying them and training them so they're effective," says Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, of America's new partners, many of whom are former insurgents. But there are signs that these groups, called Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs) by the U.S. military, are already turning on each other in competition for territory. "There is some inter-militia fighting," said John Jones, State Department Provincial Reconstruction...