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...pressure from China and some folding by the U.S. on who should be at the table. Skeptics insisted that Rafsanjani was just playing local politics; he was hoping to reinvigorate his flagging, centrist political party for next year's parliamentary elections by appealing to Iran's pro-American, pro-reform majority. But make no mistake: none of this would be happening were it not for George W. Bush. He invented the axis of evil. He decided to make war on Iraq. He has plainly scared the bejeezus out of North Korea, Iran, Syria--and, oh yes, out of the Democrats...
...They don't want change, but change is inevitable." AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Burmese Nobel laureate, criticizing the slow pace of reform talks with the country's ruling military junta...
Twenty years after the Reagan administration discovered that ours is “a nation at risk” and that our educational system is rampant with inequality, the potent political rhetoric of “standards-based” reform dominates the important debate regarding education reform. In order to leave no child behind, government establishes what it calls high standards, aligns curriculum and pedagogy with these so-called standards, tests students to see if they meet the standards, and holds students, teachers, and schools accountable for test results. The logic is clear, but the premise is false...
...student activists ever needed a supporting document to bolster their cries for Core reform, Harvard and the Unabomber provides important material...
...Saudis feel most nervous about U.S. hostility," says another diplomat. "They don't trust the neo-conservatives, and are really afraid that in the name of reform, Washington will interfere in the domestic situation, even try to manipulate the succession in the monarchy...