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Regardless of any Supreme Court decision, the federal government should take steps to reform AmeriCorps, even beyond the original guidelines set by the federal district court. Monitored teachers in parochial schools will not produce the desired improvements to the national educational system. The way to fix public schools is to give them the support they need, and AmeriCorps should do just that. Religious schools serve an important role in the realm of American education, but programs aimed at improving the educational system should not be aimed at directly improving religious schools...
...sworn in as an honorary deputy U.S. marshal as part of his work with the Safe Surfin' Foundation, a group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next week could also be star-studded: As part of a hearing on steroids, the House Government Reform Committee has invited baseball players Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, as well as Commissioner Bud Selig. So far, only Canseco, who has a new book out fingering dozens of players as steroid users, has said he will come...
...After suggesting that Social Security reform might not happen this year, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist received calls from Bush administration officials and spent two days backtracking from his statement. But after taking heat for his remarks in Washington, Frist decided to get out of the kitchen, moving to colder but friendlier confines in New Hampshire. The doctor-turned legislator showed up for a speech to Manchester Republicans, the latest in his exploration of a presidential run. While not exactly lighting up the crowd, he's clearly learned some of the requirements to be a Republican presidential candidate. He endlessly...
...path of political reform and democratization in the Middle East, and even its final result, is still quite uncertain. One thing, though, is clear: a portion of the Arab street that for so long has been silent has been awakened. The shameful status quo that for so long has smothered the Arab world and the aspirations of its people is now being challenged in a way few imagined possible. It is premature to declare any sort of “victory,” and the Bush administration has rightfully been wary of premature optimism. Middle Eastern regimes have...
...Tung's departure also gives Beijing flexibility over how much electoral reform to allow in Hong Kong. The Basic Law, the territory's constitution, says that the Chief Secretary becomes acting Chief Executive if the top post is vacated in mid-term, and that a new leader has to be chosen by the Election Committee within six months. The question?now hotly discussed by Hong Kong's many lawyers?is whether the new Chief Executive merely serves out the rest of Tung's term to 2007, or whether he gets a new five-year term...