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...another 10%, before the market stalls. That would leave the Dow Jones Industrial Average at around 9,200, or about where it was in early October, just after the initial $700 billion bank rescue plan was passed by Congress, though still well off the market high of 14,000 set two summers...
...amounts are lower than his present salary in Newton, according to school committee member Luc D. Schuster, who also served as the co-chair of the superintendent search committee. Young is currently paid approximately $248,000 as superintendent of Newton Public Schools. Although Young’s term is set to end in 2012, the agreement allows for the school committee to vote to renew his contract in July 2011. Although Simmons was one of two school committee members who voted against Young, she said that the ratification of the contract “wasn’t a contentious...
...asymmetric imposition of power based on ethnic lines. As Martin Luther King once said, “In the final analysis, the end is pre-existent in the means.” If sustainable peace is to be an end for Sri Lanka, the government must embody a new set of values as it mops up the conflict and begins to lay the foundations for a new society...
...they so choose, Patheos members can help set their own compass, customizing the site so they receive a stream of information relevant to their individual interests and, maybe, beliefs, à la Facebook. They can also contribute to the weekly debates via public discussion forums, which are monitored by both software programs and live editors to allow for free speech but not animosity. "Maybe the monopoly of clerical authority is threatened," says Brown, referring to a topic he'd like to address on Patheos. But in our diverse society, where people have increasingly been turning online for spiritual guidance, maybe...
Though Obama put forward his own plan for health-care reform during the 2008 campaign, he has signaled that he is not wedded to its specific prescriptions. His proposal, for example, included a "public plan" - one that would set up a Medicare-like, government-run coverage option for the uninsured - that has become one of the most contentious issues in the debate thus far. But in the face of criticism that a government plan would have an unfair advantage over private insurance, Obama has indicated sympathy for that argument. "Private insurance plans might end up feeling overwhelmed," he said...