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Brandt joins a slew of Harvard graduates and former affiliates who received top honors this year from the Pulitzer Board...
...city often sees protests by North Korean refugees and the Falun Gong spiritual movement. But the scale of Wednesday's events is huge: Tibetan activists hung a banner from the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, and thousands attended a vigil on the eve of the flame's arrival. A slew of other activists are congregating around the issue, from advocates for Burmese democracy (China backs the country's junta) to nudists who want the Olympics to revert to the custom of ancient Greece and have the athletes compete naked. The San Francisco police department canceled all vacations and leaves...
...Pennsylvania polls by the website Real Clear Politics, and polls show that most voters have already made up their minds. She has the backing of the popular Gov. Ed Rendell and the mayors of the state's two largest cities, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, not to mention an impressive slew of congressmen, county chairmen and assemblymen, making her unquestionably Pennsylvania's establishment candidate. Clinton has also installed her A-team in the Keystone state. Mary Isenhour, a force in Pennsylvania politics, is her state director. Mark Nevins, John Kerry's state director in 2004, is also onboard, as is Nick Clemens...
Perhaps what is worst of all about Proposition 300 is that it is just one of a slew of measures like it, in which education policy is being used as a bar on societal progress and equality. American educators must work hard to curb this dangerous co-opting before the entire system is in trouble...
...slew of bloggers and columnists from media outlets have said the move is discriminatory, puts minority interests ahead of the majority, and could be seen as a “dangerous” concession to Islam. Linda Valdez, a columnist for The Arizona Republic, called the policy an infringement on equal rights...