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...That prospect distresses many supporters of public education, including the hugely influential teachers' unions. Unions also oppose provisions in many state charter laws that free these special schools from collective bargaining agreements. In California the unions are fighting attempts to expand the state's popular charter schools beyond the current cap of 100. Meanwhile, the Michigan Education Association, having spent a fortune trying to block the state's 1993 charter-school act, is making Republican Governor John Engler's advocacy of that law an issue in his current campaign for re-election...
...pocketbooks. "Clinton and his Democrat Congress control Washington and what do we get?" one ad says. "More taxes, more spending, more government. That's not what we were promised. And that's not what this country needs." Another spot showcases the now infamous leaked OMB memo that raises the prospect of administration schemes to slash Social Security and Medicare. Will the ads play?TIME senior correspondent Laurence I. Barrettthinks the GOP timing may be off. In midterm contests, he says, "Republicans tend to try to nationalize elections and Democrats tend to localize elections. And we're at the stage...
...troops busy with cat-and-mouse games or, worse, force them to turn a blind eye. Furthermore, creating a military vacuum below the 32nd parallel could lead to a collapse of Baghdad's authority in the territory and possibly invite an incursion by Iran -- an even less appetizing prospect...
...wife of America's most dangerous double agent in recent history, was sentenced to five years in prison for aiding her husband Aldrich Ames. It was the minimum she could receive under the terms of her plea bargain. Meanwhile, hubby Aldrich is serving a life sentence without the prospect of parole. For almost a decade, Ames spied for the Soviet Union and then Russia. Prosecutors claim he was responsible for the death of at least 10 CIA agents. Rosario pleaded for leniency so she could take care of their son Paul, now living with relatives in her native Bogota, Colombia...
...often that Washington inspires American business leaders to rise from their seats and dream out loud about the economic frontiers that suits and pols can conquer together. But the prospect that Congress was coming closer last week to approving the new global trade treaty -- one of the most far-reaching acts of economic legislation in U.S. history -- had the chief economist for one of the nation's biggest food exporters talking the language of Manifest Destiny. "We're going to grow more grain. We're going to grow more beef. We're going to be slaughtering more hogs...