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...always easy because you have to know what resources are needed, and how to apply those resources where they are most effective. In that application of resources, it may not necessarily be equitable, but it will be fair. In other words, you may have to give more resources to special-needs children, which we do in Cambridge, or to minority students. We don’t want to do that at the expense of our high-achieving students of any color, so that takes a lot of very detailed planning to make sure that you don’t sacrifice...
...Imagination, I-maaa-ginnn-ay-tion, Ima-gi-naaaaaaa-tion! That’s the special Imaginationland song...
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Experts with knowledge of the region say they suspect the raid into Syria was conducted by a U.S. special-operations unit rather than regular military forces. They cite Task Force 88, a hunter-killer team, as the unit that most likely carried out the attack. By having such clandestine teams carrying out these strikes, the U.S. government restricts how many people inside the government are aware of the details, enabling Pentagon spokesmen to honestly say they know nothing about them...
Analysts in the region suspect that the decision to mount a cross-border raid into Syria was driven more by the military needs of Army commanders in Iraq than by political calculations from Washington. According to the analysts, the Joint Special Operations Command has considerable autonomy in choosing missions in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters. "This is coming out of the Army. I don't think this is a parting shot from the Bush Administration," Tabler says...