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Duncan, 44, is no stranger to occasional discomfort. He grew up in Hyde Park--the tony South Side enclave that's home to the University of Chicago--but played a lot of basketball in one of the rougher neighborhoods nearby. Often the only white player on the court, he became adept at figuring out when to be aggressive and when to hang back. In the early 1960s, Duncan's mother started an after-school tutoring program in an inner-city neighborhood following her discovery that few of the 9-year-olds in her Bible-study class could read. "In Chicago...
Duncan's background has made him intimately aware of what is at stake for America's students. As he puts it, if you made it through school in the gang-ridden South Side, you had a chance of making it out. And if you didn't, you might have ended up dead. "The dividing line between those two was clearly educational opportunity," he says. Sure, all kids are guaranteed seats in a classroom, but too many are taught by middling teachers in awful schools, Duncan says. "It's obvious the system's broken. Let's admit it's broken...
...semifinals, Cao defeated top-seeded and No. 36 Michaela Kissel of Marshall, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. “They were difficult matches, but I went out to play my game and came away with a win,” Cao said. On her side of the draw, Tachibana beat Erin Clark of Richmond, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, Elizabeta Zaylsiva of Winthrop, 6-2, 6-4, and Kateryna Yergina of Virginia Commonwealth University, 7-5, 3-4, ret. Though she did not face a ranked challenger, Tachibana took down opponents who had previously defeated players ranked...
Dodd and Shelby have proven to be a potent bipartisan combination already in 2009. When Dodd moved an aggressive, populist credit-card-reform bill out of committee without a single GOP vote, he negotiated with Shelby to craft legislation more appealing to the other side of the aisle. It passed the Senate in late March by a 90-5 vote...
...related but deeper fear is that Iran has the means to make life exceedingly unpleasant for Pakistan should it side with Tehran's enemies. Already struggling with a militant campaign that has ravaged the northwest and the tribal areas and terrorized major cities, Pakistan, analysts say, can ill-afford a revival of sectarian violence that plagued the country during the 1980s, when Saudi-backed Sunni militant groups clashed with Iranian-backed Shi'ite ones as part of a regional proxy war. Says Ayesha Siddiqa, an independent security analyst: "It isn't just Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan where Iran can create...