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...echoes John McCain on campaign-finance reform: "It is my experience that Senators focus only on pleasing those who fund their campaigns...and they are by no means scared of forgetting the niceties of democracies in order to get those funds." Padme, in a scene cut from the film, sounds like Kofi Annan pleading for Palestinians when she tells the Senate, "If you offer the separatists violence, they can only show us violence in return! Many will lose their lives. All will lose their freedom." Anakin, like Brutus just before the Ides of March, says if the Senate cannot resolve...
...writer is president of The Harvard Coalition for Drug Policy Reform...
...School Committee voted to eliminate the Massachusetts Comprehension Assessment System (MCAS) test as a mandatory requirement for high school graduation. Cambridge is now the second Massachusetts town to challenge the statewide MCAS graduation requirement, a requirement imposed by the Massachusetts Department of Education in accordance with the 1993 Education Reform Act. With this bold decision, Cambridge has taken an audacious step to protect its students from an unfair, punitive graduation requirement...
...Philadelphia school system has a bleak record for academic performance, a state panel’s decision to transfer control of 42 public schools to private organizations is the wrong remedy and threatens the mission of public education. The plan, approved last week by a bitterly divided Pennsylvania School Reform Commission, places 20 formerly-public schools under the power of the for-profit corporation Edison Schools Inc., five under the control of Temple University, three under the University of Pennsylvania and the remainder under four lesser-known organizations. These firms will exercise full control of school budgets and will likely...
...part of their mental health services reform, MIT will also begin an awareness and de-stigmatizing campaign and will use a more aggressive advertising strategy...